PROFESSOR SAMANTHA PRINCE PRESENTED AT THE 2025 AALS ANNUAL MEETING
January 2025 — Professor Samantha Prince presented at the Association of American Law Schools’ (AALS) 2025 Annual Meeting specifically as part of the Section on Transactional Law & Skills Pedagogy panel. As a panelist for the Experiential Exercises in Business Law panel, Professor Prince presented one of the assignments that she uses in her Entrepreneurship Law: Operational Issues class.
Professor Prince teaches two experiential Entrepreneurship Law courses. She includes a small business acquisition agreement negotiation and drafting assignment in her Operational Issues class to show students one way a business owner exits while another may be entering a business endeavor. The main parts of the collaborative assignment include an acquisition agreement draft exchange, negotiation, final acquisition agreement, letter to client, and a peer review of team members. Pedagogically this checks a lot of boxes.
This assignment was created based on her own practical experience and is the one that she presented at the AALS meeting.
Professor Samantha Prince is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Analysis & Writing at Dickinson Law. She has a Master of Laws in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center and was a partner in a regional law firm where she handled transactional matters that ranged from an initial public offering to regular representation of a publicly-traded company. A significant part of her practice was in employee benefits including retirement plan design and operation. Her expertise from practice has fueled her research enabling her to become an expert on 401(k) vesting schedules, employee benefits transparency, and gig work. In practice, most of her clients were small to medium sized businesses and entrepreneurs, including start-ups. Professor Prince brought her practice knowledge to the law school and established the Dickinson Law entrepreneurship program. She is an advisor for the Entrepreneurship Law Certificate that is available to students and is the founder and moderator of the Inside Entrepreneurship Law blog.