JWU Providence : Faculty Bio, Kenneth Schneyer

Faculty Bio, Kenneth Schneyer

Kenneth Schneyer

Professor

College/School: Arts and Sciences
Department: Humanities

Campus: Providence
Office location: TACO 322

Main college/department phone number: 401-598-1400


Kenneth Schneyer served as law clerk to Judge William R. Beasley of the Michigan Court of Appeals before working at the law firm of Bingham, Dana & Gould in Boston. He has published articles on the constitutive rhetoric of legal texts, employment discrimination, constitutional law and contracts, in the American Business Law Journal, The University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform and The Rutgers Law Review. From 2001 to 2004, he was Practicum Director and Assistant Dean of School of Technology at Johnson & Wales, which sparked his current interest in cyberlaw and copyright issues.

Schneyer is also a writer of science fiction and fantasy, whose stories can be found in Analog, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Abyss & Apex, Cosmos Online, Nature Physics, Clockwork Phoenix 3, Bull Spec, Ideomancer, and The Pedestal. He is a graduate of the Clarion Writers Workshop and a member of the Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop.

Schneyer serves as Chair of the Cultural Life Series of the School of Arts & Sciences. He is a member of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, the Project Management Institute, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, the American Bar Association, and Mensa.

Degrees
  • BS, Theater, Wesleyan University
  • JD, University of Michigan