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New Ethics and
Legal Studies PhD
Program
Wharton has launched a
new doctoral program in
ethics and legal studies. The
PhD in Ethics and Legal
Studies has been designed
so that anyone who completes
the program will also
have one foot in another
major discipline, such as
marketing, finance, accounting,
or management.
Graduates of the program
will be prepared to
teach this second area of expertise,
as well as ethics, law,
and social responsibility.
This should make them
more attractive to the university
job market.
"The area of ethics is
thoroughly interdisciplinary,"
explains Thomas
Donaldson, professor of
legal studies and coordinator
for the new PhD program.
"Here at Wharton we have
people approaching ethical
topics from different directions — ethics in marketing,
ethics in financial institutions,
or ethics in economics.
The subject can relate to
any of the traditional silos
around which business
schools are built."
The department expects
to attract a wide variety of
applicants — those with law
or business backgrounds, as
well as those who have
studied ethics, philosophy,
sociology, or psychology.
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