The annual International Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Conference awarded Bentley University professor Marianne Kulow with the 2014 John Bonsignore Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Law Teaching. The award is given to a member of the ALSB who has demonstrated a professional commitment to the undergraduate study of law and whose teaching or research is interdisciplinary, demonstrates critical thinking skills, and reflects humanitarian concerns.

Kulow, who used one of Bonsignore’s texts in her first year of teaching undergraduate students, has modeled her teaching style after the professor. “The multidisciplinary approach has been at the core of my teaching style ever since and to this day I still use some of the readings from that text in one of my courses,” Kulow says. 

Although Kulow has achieved multiple academic and professional achievements throughout her time at Bentley, she is best known on campus for her passionate teaching style and popular courses. According to one of her nomination letters, “In Professor Kulow’s classroom there is history, literature, ethics, psychology and business strategy. There is constant critical thinking and examination of human rights. Her multi-disciplinary approach infuses the topics, the exercises, the papers, the readings, the debates, the guest speakers, and her own presentations.”

This is Kulow’s second major international teaching award. She previously won the Charles Hewitt Master Teacher Award, which is based on a competition with materials and presentations.