PROFESSOR PRINCE’S TWO OPEN-SOURCE ENTREPRENEURSHIP LAW COURSE BOOKS ADDED TO MERLOT REPOSITORY
June 2022 — Professor Samantha Prince has authored open-source course books for her Entrepreneurship Law: Company Creation and Entrepreneurship Law: Operational Issues courses. Both books have recently been added to Merlot, a repository that provides access to open-source online learning materials. Merlot has nearly 100,000 learning resources in its vastly growing library.
Publication on Merlot broadens the potential reach of her work beyond her class at Dickinson Law to anyone who would like to use the materials.
Professor Prince received grants for the creation of both books through the Affordable Course Transformation (ACT) program offered through the Provost's charged and funded Open and Affordable Education Resources (OAER) Working group at Penn State University. Support for the development of the books was provided by Penn State's University Libraries and Penn State Department of Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT).
Professor Samantha Prince is an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Legal Analysis and 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. Most of her clients were small to medium sized businesses and entrepreneurs, including start-ups. A significant part of her practice was in employee benefits including retirement plan design and operation. An expert in entrepreneurship law, she established the Dickinson Law entrepreneurship program, 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.