Rebecca Nieman

Clinical Professor of Business Law and Ethics

• JD, DePaul University College of Law
  
• BS, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, General Management and Marketing

Rebecca Nieman is a clinical professor of business law and ethics at the University of San Diego's Knauss School of Business where she teaches courses at the undergraduate level. She has previously managed a law firm, supervised a business legal clinic as a law professor and started her own legal practice. She uses that experience in the classroom to create an experiential, real-world atmosphere for students.

Professor Nieman is a member of the California Bar Association. She was recently chosen as a Stanford EPIC Fellow with the Stanford University Global Studies Department to develop her project of internationalizing the business law curriculum. Professor Nieman is admitted to practice law in the state courts of both Illinois and California, as well as the Southern District of California.

She has experience managing public interest law firms, as well as one of the largest pro bono programs in Southern California. Professor Nieman has also helped implement numerous pro bono civil legal clinics located in the main branches of the San Diego County courthouses.

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Awards

Selected Publications

• Nieman, R. (2025) Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act: Another Bite at the Apple of Free Speech for Corporations?, Atlantic Law Journal, 28(1), 36-82.
• (2023) Why Study Law, Southern Law Journal, 32.
• Nieman, R. (2023) How Fashion and Fast Food Create a Perfect Learning Combo: A Class Exercise in Ethics, Freedom of Speech and Intellectual Property, Journal of Legal Studies Education, 40(2)(Winter 2023), 1-39.
• Nieman, R. (2021) Expanding the Business Law Curriculum Paradigm: How Bridging the Access to Justice Gap for Small Businesses Starts in the Classroom, Widener Law Review, 27, 1-21.
• Nieman, R. (2018) A Fraction of a Percent: A Call to Legal Service Providers to Increase Assistance to Community Nonprofits Using BigLaw Pro Bono, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Law Review, 40, 355-387.

Office Hours

• ETLW 302
• ETLW 311
• GSBA 508