• Legal Implications of the 1985 Investment Act, XII SELECTED PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN BUSINESS LAW REGIONAL PROCEEDINGS, 285-295 (1986).  
• Contracts, XVII:1 PROJECT MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 22-25 (March, 1987).  
• Business Ethics, XVIII:4 PROJECT MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 23-25 (September, 1987)  
• Phase I, Project Management State of the Art 1975-1985, Nuclear Power Plant Construction Industry, Final Report of a $52,900 private grant, January 15, 1988, 246 pages.  
• Legal Aspects of Doing Business With China: The Pros and Cons of the Joint Venture," 4:2 INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION JOURNAL, 1-13 (1988).  
• Doing Business With China: An Update, PROJECT MANAGEMENT NETWORK, 21-22 (January 1989).  
• Shared Liability of the Project Manager, III:2 PROJECT MANAGEMENT NETWORK, 19-20 (April 1989) (with Cornell)  
• A Risk Analysis of Doing Business in China," PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE 1989 PROCEEDINGS, 374-381 (1989).  
• Negotiating and Administering Contracts, Chapter 15, PROJECT MANAGEMENT: A STRATEGIC CONTEXT, Dr. David I. Cleland, editor, McGraw Hill, Inc., 1990. 
• Revised and republished, Chapter 15, A Project Manager's Guide to Contracting, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, STRATEGIC DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION, Second Edition, McGraw Hill, Inc. (1994) 
• Europe 1992 and Beyond, Concerns for American Business, research funded by WATTec award for outstanding paper, 1990 national conference: comparative analysis of project situations encountered. 
• Legal Framework of the European Community and Its Implications for U.S. Businesses," 22 ACADEMY OF LEGAL STUDIES IN BUSINESS NATIONAL PROCEEDINGS, (1993) (with Ayer). 
• Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Athletics: Title IX Revisited, III SOUTHEASTERN JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES IN BUSINESS, 109-120 (1994) (with Wilson and Patil) 
• Contracts Negotiations: The Pipehangers, I CASE DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL, 49 (Abstract) (March 1994). 
• The Use of Cases in Business Law, I CASE DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL, 60 (Abstract) (March 1994) (with Burke). 
• A Risk Analysis of Current Projects in the People's Republic of China Global Project Management Handbook, Chapter 9, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company (1994). 
• Building Grain Storage Facilities in China: International Contact Negotiation, 36:5 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COST ESTIMATION, COST/SCHEDULE CONTROL & PROJECT MANAGEMENT, 7-11 (May 1994). Reprinted by request in PROJECTPRO, THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AFRICAN QUANTITY SURVEYORS, January, 1995. 
• The Contractor's Contract: A Tool for Developing Critical Thinking Skills, 12:2 JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES EDUCATION 219-260 (1994) (with Brayton). 
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Death Penalty, 38:1 HOWARD LAW JOURNAL, 127 (1995) (with Burke). 
• Games for Quizzing Recall in Business Law Courses, 15:2 JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES EDUCATION, 307-319 (1998) (with Burke). 
• ON YOUR OWN, NORTH CAROLINA SMALL CLAIMS COURT, A DEBT COLLECTION GUIDE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES (1998). 
• Leading the Transition from the Traditional Classroom to a Distance Learning Environment, 26:1 54-57, T.H.E. JOURNAL (TECHNOLOGICAL HORIZONS IN EDUCATION) (August, 1998) (with Leftwich). 
• Leading the Pack: From an On- Campus Program to an Internet-Based Delivery, THE TECHNOLOGY SOURCE, November/December 1999 (with Leftwich). 
• Collaborative Learning in an Internet Graduate Course: A Case Study Analysis, k:4, 36-46, WEBNET JOURNAL: INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES, APPLICATIONS & ISSUES, October-December 2000. (with Comeaux) 
• Women and the Web: Impact of the Internet on Quality of Life," p. 64, Abstract in DEVELOPMENTS IN QUALITY OF LIFE STUDIES, Volume 1, 1997. (with Dunlap). 
• Collaborative Instructional Design for an Internet Based Graduate Degree Program, (with Leftwich) Chapter 2, pp. 23-38, COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION IN THE ONLINE CLASSROOM: EXAMPLES AND APPLICATIONS. Dr. Patricia Comeaux, editor, Anker Publishing Company, Inc. 2002. 
• Work in Progress 
• Cheating on the Internet: Maintaining Quality in Online Education (with Kasprzak) (presented at WebNet, AACE, Orlando, FL, March 10, 2001 
• Women and the Web, An Update (with Kasprzak) (presented at SWFAD March 3, 2001, New Orleans, LA.) 
• Retention Issues in Online Education (research in progress with Leftwich and Nair).

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