Non-profits hire our graduates to manage their operations, to market their
services & to provide accounting and tax advice.  I teach health care law
and legal issues for tax exempt non-profits are very important.  Many legal
environment textbooks do include a paragraph or two describing the
non-profit as a form of corporation.   I suspect that they do not give
non-profits broader coverage, not because they are not important, but
because the law for non-profits is the same as for other for profit business
entities, except for in a few narrow areas (like tax).

I would ask whether your accounting dept. teaches non-profit accounting, if
they do (as mine does) then your point is made.  I see no reason for valuing
research on non-profits differently than any other business law research.
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Lizbeth Griffin Ellis, Associate Professor
New Mexico State University
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