Kelly Eskew
- Clinical Professor
- Director of Education, Institute for Environmental & Social Sustainability
Campus: Bloomington
Biography
Kelly Eskew is a Clinical Professor of Business Law & Ethics and Director of Education for the Kelley Institute for
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Kelly Eskew is a Clinical Professor of Business Law & Ethics and Director of Education for the Kelley Institute for Environmental and Social Sustainability. She has received numerous teaching awards, notably the Bonsignore Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Law Teaching from the Academy for Legal Studies in Business. This national award recognizes her commitment to the undergraduate study of law and teaching that is interdisciplinary, demonstrates critical thinking skills, and reflects humanitarian concerns. Professor Eskew has additionally been recognized with Kelley’s Faculty Service Award and received the Innovative Teaching Award three times, the Eyster Teaching Scholars Award, and the Campus Catalyst – Excellence in Teaching Award. She was recognized with the Kelley School’s Panschar Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2019. She has twice been honored with the IU Trustee Teaching Award.
Professor Eskew currently teaches climate change law and policy, business and human rights, sustainability law and policy, and business and global poverty alleviation.
An attorney, Professor Eskew started her law career with ten years in private practice, representing corporations and hospitals, the Indiana Horse Racing Commission (for which she was later an administrative law judge), and the doctors who invented Gatorade, among others. She then served as in-house counsel to IU Health, managing malpractice and employment litigation. The year prior to joining the Kelley faculty, she worked at the ACLU and litigated civil rights cases. She had the privilege of representing clients in two of Indiana’s marriage equality cases.
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Areas of Expertise
Climate law and policy; sustainability law and policy; business and human rights; business and poverty alleviation; civil rights; business ethics
Awards, Honors & Certificates
- Innovative Teaching Award, 2019-2020, 2024-2025 (awarded by Kelley School of Business)
- Poets & Quants 50 Best Undergraduate Business Professors 2023
- Kelley Service Award, 2022-2023 (awarded by Kelley School of Business)
- Most Influential Faculty Award, 2023 (awarded by Kelley Business Honors students)
- Trustees Teaching Award, 2017 and 2022 (awarded by Indiana University)
- Campus Catalyst – Excellence in Teaching Award, 2021 (awarded by Sustain IU)
- Elvin S. Eyster Teaching Scholars Award, 2020 (with Kelley Direct MBA faculty colleagues) (awarded by Kelley School of Business)
- John Bonsignore Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Law Teaching, 2019 (awarded by the Academy of Legal Studies in Business)
- Panschar Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2019 (awarded to one non-tenure track faculty member per year by the Kelley School of Business)
- Innovative Teaching Award, 2018-2019 (with ethics faculty colleagues)(awarded by Kelley School of Business)
Edited on May 9, 2025
