Risk Management Department Faculty and Staff

Department Chair

Dan Cahoy is the Head of the Risk Management Department, which includes faculty specializing in actuarial science, business economics, business law, international business, real estate and risk and insurance. He is also the Robert G. and Caroline Schwartz Professor and Professor of Business Law. His personal specialty is in the teaching and research of intellectual property law, as well as general business law concepts. He has published numerous articles in academic law journals on topics such as IP and sustainable energy innovation, trademarks and sustainable upcycling, business and human rights, FDA regulatory policy, reforming the U.S. patent system, and the use of experimental economics to improve jury studies.

Professor Cahoy served on the Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed American Business Law Journal from 2005-2010, including as the Editor-in-Chief, and is a Past President of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB). He was a Fulbright Scholar in 2009, serving as the Visiting Fulbright Chair in International Humanitarian Law at the University of Ottawa. He is currently a Senior Scholar at the Intellectual Property Policy Institute. In 2021, Professor Cahoy was awarded the Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching, Penn State’s highest award for tenured faculty members engaged in undergraduate instruction. He is also a recipient of the ALSB's Kay Duffy Memorial Award for Extraordinary Service to the Academy.