Kauffman Updates, Expands Its Entrepreneurship Law Content

The Kauffman Foundation has revamped and expanded its Entrepreneurship Law “EshipLaw” resources at entrepreneurship.org.

The EshipLaw channel, originally launched in 2009, offers information and resources on entrepreneurship and the law for teachers, students, makers, business owners and attorneys or other consultants to entrepreneurs.

The site’s core content continues to appear in two publicly accessible sections—Law Scholarship and Resource Links—along with other sections for educators who have registered for a complimentary academic account. The scholarship side encompasses sections that have been on the site since its start—For-Profit Transactions, Non-Profit Transactions and Transactional Clinics (formerly Operating Clinics)—as well as a restructured Classroom Teaching section and a new section on Social Enterprises.

Important changes and additions to the site include:

  • Answers to frequently asked questions by entrepreneurs and educators
  • A site map for easier access to materials
  • A dialogue section for posting articles and essays, along with EshipLaw visitor commentaries on posted writings; and announcements about publications and events concerning the law and entrepreneurship, which will fuel a quarterly EshipLaw Newsletter.

The site’s beefed-up content stems from the work of three new editors brought on board in 2013:  Constance Bagley (professor in the practice of law and management at the Yale School of Management), Cassady Brewer (assistant professor of law at the Georgia State University College of Law) and Karl Okamoto (professor of law and director of the business and entrepreneurship program at Drexel University’s Earle Mack School of Law).

The Kauffman Foundation also encourages EshipLaw visitors to contribute by submitting content for possible posting through a submission form on the site.