Ethics & Legal Studies

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Faculty Perspective

Alan Strudler

Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics

department is unique. We study business problems from the diverse perspectives of philosophical ethics, law and the social sciences. No other department in the world works across disciplines as we do.

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Faculty and Research

The Ethics and Legal Studies faculty pursue issues connected to the relationship between social norms, both ethical and legal, and business.  Faculty research is concentrated in several broad areas: business ethics, business law, negotiation, law and philosophy, and international ethical and legal issues.

Representative Publications

Janice R. Bellace, The Impact of the American and British Equal Pay Guarantee on Job Evaluation, Applied Psychology, 2008

Janice R. Bellace, Labour Law at the Crossroads: Changing Employment Relationships, Kluwer, 1997, (with M.G. Road)

Thomas Donaldson, Compass and Dead Reckoning:  The Dynamic of Implications of ISCT, Journal of Business Ethics, 2009

Thomas Donaldson, A Frustrated Quest for Community, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 2009

Thomas Donaldson, Ties That Bind, Harvard Business School Press, 1999, (with Thomas W. Dunfee)

Nien-hê Hsieh, Corporate Social Responsibility and the Priority of Shareholders, Journal of Business Ethics, 2009

Nien-hê Hsieh, Justice at Work: Arguing for Property-Owning Democracy, Journal of Social Philosophy, 2009

Nien-hê Hsieh, The Normative Study of Business Organizations: A Rawlsian Approach, Normative Theory and Business Ethics, Roman & Littlefield, 2008

Waheed Husain, No More Lemmings, Please – Reflections on the Communal Authority Thesis, Journal of Business Ethics, 2009

Waheed Husain, The Most Stable Just Regime, Journal of Social Philosophy, 2009

Waheed Husain, Enabling good housing decisions, Communities and Banking, 2009

William S. Laufer, Collective Strategies in Fighting Corruption: Some Intuitions and Counter Intuitions, Journal of Business Ethics, 2009 (with D. Petkoski)

William S. Laufer, Are Corruptions Indices a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? A Social Labeling Perspective of Corruption, Journal of Business Ethics, 2009 (with D.E. Warren)

William S. Laufer, Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds, The Failure of Corporate Criminal Liability, University of Chicago, 2006

Andrea Matwyshyn, Hidden Engines of Destruction: The Reasonable Expectation of Code Safety and the Duty to Warn in Digital Products, Florida Law Review, 2010

Andrea Matwyshyn, CSR and the Corporate Cyborg: Ethical Corporate Information Security Practices, Journal of Business Ethics, 2009

Andrea Matwyshyn, Technoconsen(t)sus." Washington University Law Review, 2007

Ann E. Mayer, The Fatal Flaws in the U.S. Constitutional Project for Iraq, Journal of International Affairs. Religion & Statecraft, 2007

Ann E. Mayer, The Islam and Human Rights Nexus: Shifting Dimensions,  Muslim World Journal of Human Rights published by The Berkeley Electronic Press, 2007

Ann E. Mayer, Islam and Human Rights, Westview, 2007.

Philip M. Nichols, Using Sociological Theories of Isomorphism to Evaluate the Possibility of Regime Change Through Trade Sanction, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, 2009

Philip M. Nichols, Multiple Communities and Corruption, Journal of Business Ethics, 2009

Eric W. Orts, Putting a Stake in Stakeholder Theory, Journal of Business Ethics, 2009 (with Alan Strudler)

Eric W. Orts, Collaborative Environmental Law: Pro and Con, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2007, (with Cary Coglianese)

Diana C. Robertson, Corporate Social Responsibility and Different Stages of Economic Development: Singapore, Turkey and Ethiopia, Journal of Business Ethics, 2009

Diana C. Robertson, Regulatory Exposure of Deceptive marketing and Its Impact on Firm Value, Journal of Marketing, 2009

Diana C. Robertson, The Neural Processing of Moral Sensitivity to Issues of Justice and Care, Neuropsychologia, 2007, (with John Snarey, Opal Ousley, Keith Harenski, F. DuBois Bowman, Rick Gilkey, and Clinton Kilts)

Arnold J. Rosoff, Health Law at Fifty Years: A Look Back, Health Matrix: Journal of  Law-Medicine, 2004

Arnold J. Rosoff, Informed Consent to Medical and Surgical Treatment, in Legal Medicine, 2004

Arnold J. Rosoff, On Being a Physician in the Electronic Age: Peering into the Mists at 'Point-and-Click' Medicine, St. Louis University Law Journal, 2002

Galit Sarfaty, Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank, American Journal of International Law, forthcoming

Galit Sarfaty, Measuring Justice: Internal Conflict over the World Bank’s Empirical Approach to Human Rights, in Mirrors of Justice: Law and Power in the Post-Cold War Era, Kamari Clarke & Mark Goodale eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming

Amy Sepinwall, Collective Guilt and the Reactive Attitudes, in Collective Punishment, under review, Cambridge University Press, (with Richard Vernon and Tracy Isaacs eds.)

Amy Sepinwall, Failures to Punish: Command Responsibility in Domestic and International Law, Michigan Journal of International Law, 2009

G. Richard Shell, The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas, Portfolio/Penguin, 2007, (with Mario Moussa)

G. Richard Shell, Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People, 2nd edition, Viking Press/Penguin Books: New York, 2006.

Kenneth L. Shropshire, The Business of Sports Agents, Second Edition, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, (with Timothy Davis)

Kenneth L. Shropshire, Introduction: Sports Law?  American Business Law Journal, 2008

Kenneth L. Shropshire, Negotiate Like the Pros: A Master Sports Negotiator’s Lessons for Making Deals, Building Relationships, and Getting What You Want, McGraw-Hill, 2008

Alan Strudler, New Directions in Legal Scholarship: Implications for Business Ethics Research, Theory, and Practice, Business Ethics Quarterly, forthcoming (with John Hasnas and Robert Prentice)

Alan Strudler, The Distinctive Wrong in Lying, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2010

Alan Strudler, The Moral Problem in Insider Trading, in Beauchamp and Brenkert (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics, Oxford, 2009

William C. Tyson, The Proper Relationship Between Federal and State Law in the Regulation of Tender Offers, Notre Dame Law Review, 1990

William C. Tyson, The Williams Act After Hanson Trust v. SCM Corporation: Post-Tender Offer Purchases by the Tender Offeror, Tulane Law Review, 1986

Kevin Werbach, Only Connect, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, forthcoming

Kevin Werbach, Off the Hook, Cornell Law Review, 2010

Kevin Werbach, The Federal Computer Commission, North Carolina Law Review, 2005

David Zaring, Law Versus Ideology: The Supreme Court and the Use of Legislative History, William & Mary Law Review, 2010 (with David S. Law)

David Zaring, Best Practices, New York University Law Review, 2006

David Zaring, Regulation by Deal: The Government’s Response to the Financial Crisis, Administrative Law Review, 2009