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College / Department

School of Business Administration

Department of Management, Strategy and Entrepreneurship

Teaching areas

Business Law, Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Research areas

Comparative contract and labor law in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Discipline and dismissal in the workplace, discrimination and equality law, and the formation and function of trade unions.

Education

LLM, Law And Employment Relations, University of Leicester, United Kingdom, 2008

LLB, Llb, McGill University, Canada, 2000

Other, Bcl, McGill University, Canada, 2000

BA, Honors Philosophy, McGill University, Canada, 1996

Professional experience

Assistant Professor, Management, American University of Sharjah, 2003 - Present

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2729

Dr. Tor Brodtkorb

Assistant Professor

LLM, University of Leicester, United Kingdom

Before joining the faculty of AUS in 2003, Tor Brodtkorb was an associate attorney at the New York branch of Shearman & Sterling. His research interests include comparative contract and labor law; discipline and dismissal in the workplace; discrimination and equality law, and the formation and function trade unions. He is a member of the New York State Bar.

Publications

Daniel Fredrick, Laurence Craven, Maria Eleftheriou And Tor Brodtkorb. The Role of Faculty Expertise and Intuition in Distinguishing between AI Generated Text and Student Writing, English Scholarship Beyond Borders Esbb Journal

Tor Brodtkorb. The Leadership Legacy of Commission Chairs: Building upon and Extending a Comparative Study of Ten Canadian Commissions of Inquiry, Canadian Public Policy, 2020

Rodrigo Basco And Tor Brodtkorb. Sheikh Saud Bin Majid’s Dilemma: A Case Study of the Al Saud Company, Harvard Business Review Arabia, 1 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2020

Rodrigo Rodriguez And Tor Brodtkorb. Saud Bin Majid's Dilemma, 2018

Joe Wallis, Tor Brodtkorb And Brian Dollery. Advancing commission scholarship by inferring leadership legacy motivations from commission reports: The case of Sir Michael Lyons, Public Policy And Administration, 1 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2018

Joe Wallis, Tor Brodtkorb, Brian Dollery And Muiris Maccarthaigh. Commissions and Local Government Reform: Expressed Leadership Identities of Commissioners in Inquiries Proposing Municipal Mergers in Northern Ireland and New South Wales, Politics And Policy, 1 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2017

Patrick Mcclelland And Tor Brodtkorb. Who gets the lion's share? Top management team pay disparities and CEO power, Journal Of General Management, 2014

Tor Brodtkorb. Judicial reform of unfair dismissal law: Recent developments in the range of reasonable responses, King's Law Journal, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2014

Martin Spraggon, Virginia Bodolica And Tor Brodtkorb. Executive compensation and board of directors' disclosure in Canadian publicly-listed corporations, Corporate Ownership And Control, 25 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2013

Conference Presentations

What are the ethical obligations of private economic actors in conflict zones?, The State Of The Art In Business And Peace, 26 September 2023

The Development of Different Standards for Fair Dismissal in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, Annual Conference Of The Society Of Legal Scholars, 4 September 2020

Unfair Dismissal Law in the UK, Australia and New Zealand: A Comparative Analysis of Tribunal Standards for Evaluating Fairness, Academy Of Legal Studies In Business Annual Conference, 5 August 2019

A Comparative Analysis of the Standards for Unfair Dismissal in the UK and Australia, Socio Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, 02 April 2019