Castagnera on Legal Rights

Castagnera: Journalist, Lawyer, Public Intellectual April 25, 2010

James Ottavio Castagnera, J.D., Ph.D., has spent more than 25 years practicing, writing about, and teaching law. He is an expert in employment law and policy, and is well versed in many areas of higher education law.  He has been a labor lawyer and litigator with a major Philadelphia firm and the general counsel/corporate secretary for the then-largest convenience store chain in New Jersey and for the nation’s number one econometric forecasting organization. He has published 18 books, as well as some 50 professional/scholarly articles and book chapters. He has been a frequent commentator in newspapers, magazines, and the Internet.  His teaching has taken him to the University of Texas-Austin, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Widener University School of Law.  Currently he is the Associate Provost and Associate Counsel at an East Coast university, and president of a freelance writing firm, K&C HR Enterprises.  In 2007 he was an Academic Fellow on Terrorism in Israel under the auspices of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy.  His 17th book, Al Qaeda Goes to College, was published by Praeger in April 2009, and his 18th book, Handbook for Student Law for Higher Education Administrators was released by Peter Lang in early 2010.