John C. Kuzenski

Biography

John C. Kuzenski is faculty in business law specializing in the legal and regulatory environment of business at Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University in Raleigh. He is also on the faculty of the Jenkins MBA Program at Poole, teaching law and regulation of biotechnology and broader life sciences industries. He is a career social scientist with an interest in nongovernmental actors including businesses and political parties, and an attorney with admissions to the Bars of North Carolina and the District of Columbia, several federal district courts, US Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth and DC Circuits and the Supreme Court of the United States. Professor Kuzenski's research and teaching interests are interdisciplinary within a range of questions of law, politics, business, public policy and public administration and management.

Prior to joining NC State-Poole, Kuzenski served the political science departments of North Carolina Central University, The Citadel and Vanderbilt University, with adjunct appointments at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Government, NC State (in political science), Louisiana State University and The University of Georgia.

Among his more recent published works are peer-review articles on the content and pedagogy of undergraduate business law courses (Journal of Legal Studies Education) and faculty practice in building student academic integrity cases (College Teaching), as well as co-authorship (with James F. Morgan) of the textbook Essentials and Elements of Business Law 5th/6th editions (BVT). His law review scholarship has focused primarily on policy effects of legislative and judicial modifications to common law rules, in addition to the effects of state law on electoral redistricting and representation. Previous published scholarship focused mainly on issues of race and representation in state and federal elections. From 1996-2002, Kuzenski was co-director of the Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics, the nation's largest scholarly conference on American sub-regional politics.

Outside of academia, Kuzenski has served as legal counsel for a number of national collegiate honor societies and other nonprofit organizations, a divisional Assistant Director and Agency Legal Specialist with the North Carolina Department of Revenue, and as a clerk at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina and the North Carolina Court of Appeals.