Background

Professor Burkhard teaches in the areas of Property and Business. Prior to joining the faculty he was a partner in a Columbus, Ohio firm where he practiced law for twelve years. He served for seven years as the editor in chief of the American Bar Association's Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Journal, retiring from that position in January, 2013. Professor Burkhard has a special interest in small business organizations. He has been active as a member of, and reporter for, various drafting committees involved in revisions of the South Carolina business laws.

Selected Scholarship

• Resolving LLC Member Disputes in North Carolina, 37 Campbell L. Rev.  225 (2015).
• Resolving LLC Member Disputes in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Other States that Enacted the Prototype LLC Act, 67 Bus. Law. 405 (2012).
• May a Member of an LLC or a Limited Partner Bring a Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claim Against Those Controlling the LLC or Partnership as a Diversity Action?, 23 Rev. Litig. 241 (2004).
• LLC Member and Limited Partner Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claims: Direct or Derivative Actions?, 7 J. Small & Emerging Bus. L. 19 (2003).

Education

• J.D., Ohio State University
• M.A., Ohio University
• B.A., Ohio State University

Teaching

• Property (LAWS 509)
• Corporations (LAWS 581)
• Business Corporations (LAWS 600)
• Agency, Partnerships & LLCs (LAWS 611)