Daniel S. Bowling III

Daniel S. Bowling is an interdisciplinary scholar whose focus is at the intersection of law, work, and psychology. He teaches courses in Labor Law and the Reflective Lawyer. He joined the Georgia State University College of Law faculty in 2023 after 18 years at Duke Law School as a Distinguished Fellow and the 2015 recipient of Duke Law's Distinguished Teaching Award. At Duke, he taught the primary courses in labor and law. He also designed and taught a course on lawyers and personal well-being which has been featured in several national publications and served as the foundation for similar courses at other law schools. Additionally, Bowling is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, where he assists Dr. Martin Seligman in teaching courses on positive psychology, positive humanities, and character strengths and virtues in their master's program in positive psychology.

Until 2006, he was Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc., a Fortune 125 company. In that capacity, he had responsibility for all Human Resources matters for the company's 80,000 employees in North America and Western Europe, including 35,000 working over 200 labor contracts. In addition to his Human Resources responsibilities, Bowling was a member of the corporation's governing executive committee. During his twenty-year career in the Coca-Cola system, Bowling served in many roles, including president of one of the largest business units in the company and serving as general manager of the Florida Coca-Cola Bottling Company. He joined CCE in 1986 as Chief Labor Counsel.

Before joining CCE, Bowling was a partner with Smith, Currie, and Hancock in Atlanta, Ga. He specialized in Title VII litigation and management labor law. Bowling serves on several boards and is active in non-profit organizations. He is a frequent speaker at seminars and meetings and has published numerous works in scholarly and professional publications. His current areas of academic research and writing include the application of positive psychology in the practice of law and medicine, the role of well-being in legal ethics, and labor unionization among professional employees.

Bowling graduated cum laude with honors in English from Millsaps College in 1977. He received his J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 1980, and a master's degree in positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009.