Professor Karl Okamoto, director of the school’s Business and Entrepreneurship Law Program, has been named a 2011-2012 “master” by the Conglomerate blog.

The Conglomerate, which focuses business, law, economics and society, was rated one of the Top 25 Business Law Blogs of 2010 by LexisNexis.

Created by professors Christine Hurt of the University of Illinois and Gordon Smith currently of Brigham Young University, the blog invites and sparks commentary from a wide and respected array of scholars in the legal and financial spheres.

Okamoto joins professors from law schools at Duke University, University of California-Davis, University of California-Irvine, American University and other prestigious universities in being tapped as a master commentator for the next year.