Faculty

Brent McClintock

Associate Professor of Law and Economics

Office Phone: 262 551-5852
Home Page
bmcclintock@carthage.edu

Having trained as an economist, in mid career Brent McClintock studied law part-time at John Marshall Law School in Chicago. While there he focused on intellectual property law, international law, and constitutional law. He won best oral argument in the Herzog Appellate Moot Court Competition. McClintock is licensed to practice law in Illinois and has been admitted to the U. S. District Court for Northern Illinois. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association. In addition to his economics teaching, McClintock teaches law courses including law & economics, the legal environment of business, and international business law. He is currently developing an introduction to law course for possible inclusion on the 2008/09 schedule. Current legal research interests include the boundary between private property rights and the public domain in intellectual property law, the law of international economic integration, and the law & economics of contracts. McClintock has been on the Carthage faculty since 1991.

Michael Phegley

Associate Professor of Business Administration

Clausen Center
Office Phone: 262 551-2116
mphegley@carthage.edu

Michael Phegley joined the Carthage faculty in 2004 after having served as an adjunct professor at Carthage and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Mr. Phegley is an attorney with Phegley, Laufenberg & Jensen, a practice that concentrates on family, criminal, labor and employment law, as well as alternative dispute resolution. He also serves as a Judicial Court Commissioner for Racine County, presiding over hearings involving juvenile, criminal, traffic, probate and civil law matters. He is a certified mediator and previously served on the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee for the State Bar of Wisconsin.

Mr. Phegley is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin and a member and past president of the Racine County Bar Association. He is the faculty advisor for the Carthage Mock Trial Team and the Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity. He is the vice-president of the board of directors for the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Alumni Association and a member of the board of directors for Saint Catherine's High School in Racine, in addition to his involvement with other community service organizations.

John Neuenschwander

Professor of History
Office Phone: 262 551-5886
jneuenschwander@carthage.edu

John A. Neuenschwander is a noted authority on oral history. He previously was selected as the Carthage Distinguished Teacher of the Year and has twice served as chair of the History Department. A frequent contributor to the Oral History Association Newsletter, he also has published a book, "The Middle Colonies, and the Coming of the American Revolution"; a booklet, "Oral History and the Law", and has edited two community history anthologies, "Kenosha County in the Twentieth Century" and "Kenosha Retrospective: A Biographical Approach". In 1976-77, he was a National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University.

Neuenschwander's teaching includes courses in American history and various areas of law. He came to Carthage in 1969. In 1986 he was elected as Municipal Judge for the City of Kenosha and has been re-elected five times, most recently in 2004.