Jamie D. Prenkert
Contact Information
(812) 855-9308
japrenke [at] indiana [dot] edu (E-mail)
Business School, Room 428C
- Associate Professor of Business Law
- Weimer Faculty Fellow
Campus
- Bloomington
Education
- JD, Magna Cum Laude, Harvard Law School
- BA, Summa Cum Laude, Anderson University
Professional Experience
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission , Senior Trial Attorney
- Baker & Daniels, Indianapolis, IN, Associate
Professional Interests
Employment Discrimination (race, sex, disabilities), Workplace Harassment, Retaliation Issues
Background
Associate Professor of Business Law Jamie Darin Prenkert earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and his B.A., summa cum laude with honors in Political Science, from Anderson University. Prior to joining the Kelley School faculty, Professor Prenkert was a senior trial attorney for the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. While at the EEOC, Professor Prenkert was awarded a Heyman Fellowship by the Harvard Law School Program on Government Service. Prior to that, Professor Prenkert was an associate in the law firm of Baker & Daniels. Professor Prenkert’s research focuses on employment discrimination and harassment law, the regulation of religion in business and education, anti-retaliation protections in the employment context, and alternative dispute resolution. His scholarship has earned national and regional awards from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (“ALSB”) and has appeared in leading labor and employment law journals. Professor Prenkert serves on the editorial board of the American Business Law Journal and is an officer in the Employment Law Section of the ALSB. His teaching honors include the 2007 Harry C. Sauvain Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the 2005 Academy of Legal Studies in Business Master Teacher Award, and the 2004 Kelley School of Business Innovative Teaching Award. During the last two fall semesters, Professor Prenkert traveled to India with his students in the Kelley School’s Sophomore Block program. He accompanied 20 undergraduate students to Ghana, West Africa, during spring break 2008, as part of the Kelley Emerging Markets program. Professor Prenkert is a member of the Board of Directors of the Hoosier Hills Food Bank and the Session of the First Presbyterian Church in Bloomington.
Selected Publications
- Prenkert, Jamie D. (2008), "Censorship, Compelled Speech, and Marketing Sexually Explicit Video Games," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Vol. 36.
- Prenkert, Jamie D. (2008), “The Role of Second-Order Uniformity in Disparate Treatment Law: McDonnell Douglas’s Longevity and the Mixed-Motives Mess,” American Business Law Journal, Vol. 45.
Prenkert, Jamie D. (2007), "Bizarro Statutory Stare Decisis," Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, Vol. 28.
Prenkert, Jamie D. and Julie Manning Magid (2006), "A Hobson’s Choice Model for Religious Accommodation," American Business Law Journal, Vol. 43.
Prenkert, Jamie D. and Julie Manning Magid (2005), "The Religious and Associational Freedoms of Business Owners," University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law, Vol. 7. Reprinted in International Journal of Civil Society Law, Vol. 3 (2005).
Prenkert, Jamie D. (2004), "Liberty, Diversity, Academic Freedom, and Survival: Preferential Hiring Among Religiously-Affiliated Institutions of Higher Education," Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal, Vol. 22.
