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Brian A. Link Faculty Profile

Brian Link

Associate Professor of Teaching of Business Law
Business Administration Division, Seaver College
CCB 320

Education

  • JD, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law
  • BA, Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

  • "Arbitration in Bankruptcy: Coreness and Other Case Law Considerations for The Arbitral Framework 12 Years after Thorpe," California Bankruptcy Journal (36 Cal. Bankr. J 435 (2025))
  • "Using Cinema to Foster Active Classroom Engagement," Journal of Legal Studies Education (2025)
  • "Intellectual Property In the Era of AI, Blockchain and Web 3.0" Open Access Teaching Tool available Open Access Teaching Tool
  • "Married Parties in Bankruptcy: Hypotheticals Regarding Divorce, Separation, Resulting Trusts, California Bankruptcy Journal (34 Cal. Bankr. J 43 (2017)).
  • "Community Property Presumptions & Transmutations: Reconciling California's Valli Dissolution Decision With The Ninth Circuit's Summers Conclusions in the Bankruptcy Context Re: The Third Party and Inter-Spousal Transfers, Joint Tenancy and Transmutations," California Bankruptcy Journal (33 Cal. Bankr. J. 227 (2015)).
  • "Secured Loan Modification Absent Contractual Privity in Bankruptcy: A Survey of Case Law Twenty Years After Johnson v. Home Stat Bank," California Bankruptcy Journal (31 Cal. Bankr. J. 869 (2012)).
  • In re Lorber, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 8536 (9th Cir. 2017).
  • Howard A. White Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence (Oct. 2022)
  • “Fostering Classroom Active Engagement.” Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) 2023 Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA.
  • Artificial Intelligence, Real Students: An Introduction to the Early AI Tools Students are Using.” 2023 2U/edX Educator Conference (Innovations in Higher Education) [Online]
  • Faculty Conference Panel: How to cultivate virtue as a teacher (Sept. 29, 2023) (with conference keynote speaker Francis Su). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.
  • Presentation: "The Revolution in Private Space Development: Coming Sooner Than You Think." FreedomFest. Las Vegas, NV (July 21, 2017).
  • Presentation: "Into the Unknown: Regulations and Law in the Private Space Era." New Space Age Conference. MIT Sloan Astropreneurship & Space Industry Club, Cambridge, MA (Mar. 11, 2017).
     

Areas of Expertise

  • Business Law
  • Bankruptcy

Topics

  • Bankruptcy
  • Business Law
  • Constitutional Law
  • Pedagogy
  • Administrative Law
  • Faith & Business
  • U.S. Legal System

Courses

  • Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business
  • Legal Environment of International Business
  • Foundations of Reasoning