Janice R. Bellace

Janice R. Bellace is a Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at the Wharton School of Business. She has held the Samuel Blank Chair in Legal Studies since 1996. She is the author of numerous academic books, chapters, articles and papers; her research interests are in the field of labor and employment law, particularly international labor law.

Education

Bellace received her B.A. and J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (in 1971 and 1974 respectively) and holds a M.Sc. in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics, which she attended as a Thouron Scholar.[1][2]

Academic career

Bellace returned to Penn in 1977 to begin her academic career. Since that time she has held multiple positions in the school. She became Vice Dean for the Undergraduate Division of Wharton in 1990 and Deputy Dean in 1994. In 1999, after stepping down as Deputy Dean she spent time in Singapore and became the founding president of the Singapore Management University. Following her sabbatical she returned to Penn and became the Associate Provost of the university in 2004 and Deputy Provost from 2006-2007. She held the position of Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business from 2001-2015, and subsequently became Director of the Tanoto Initiative, an initiative of the Tanoto Foundation, in 2016.[2]

Notable Leadership Roles

In addition to her work at Penn, Bellace is currently a member of the International Board of Overseers of Koç University. She was appointed as a member of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal in 2018.[3] She is the co-chair of the UAW Public Review Board. She is on the board of trustees for Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Methodist Hospital in Philadelphia. Bellace was a member of the ILO Committee of Experts from 1994-2010. She continued her relationship with Singapore Management University as a member of the board from 2001-2013 and as a member of the International Academic Review Panel from 2015-2017. Additionally, Bellace served as the President of the International Industrial Relations Association from 2009 through the 16th IIRA World Congress in Philadelphia in June 2012. She served as president of LERA in 2017.[2]

Books
  • Labour Law at the Crossroads: Changing Employment Relationships. (Kluwer Law International, 1997). (with M.G. Rood)
  • Business and its legal environment (Prentice-Hall, 1983). (with Thomas Dunfee and Arnold Rosoff)

References
  1. "Board of Trustees Profile Janice R. Bellace". Singapore Management University. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  2. "Janice R. Bellace". The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
  3. "World Bank Meeting Minutes March 2018". World Bank. Retrieved 18 July 2018.


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