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
Names in bold type indicate authors who were Wharton doctoral students at the time of publication.

Nien-hê Hsieh, "Does Global Business Have a Responsibility to Promote Just Institutions?" Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 2, 251-273, 2009

Alan Strudler, "Confucian Skepticism About Workplace Rights," Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 1, 67-84, 2008

Eric W. Orts, (debate with Cary Coglianese) "Collaborative Environmental Law: Pro and Con," University of Pennsylvania Law Review (PENNumbra)156 (2007).

Thomas Donaldson, "The Transatlantic Paradox: How outdated concepts confuse the American/European debate about corporate governance," in the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility, Ed: Crane, A.; McWilliams, A., Matten, D; Moon, J.; and Siegel, D. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 1-15, 2007.

William S. Laufer, "Law, Ethics, and Divergent Rhetoric," Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 3, 497-513, 2007

Nien-hê Hsieh, "Managers, Workers, and Authority," Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 71, no. 4, pp: 347-357, 2007.

Waheed Hussain, "The Ethical Dimension of the Class Structure," Social Theory and Practice, vol. 33, no. 2, April 2007

Diana C. Robertson with John Snarey, Opal Ousley, Keith Harenski, F. DuBois Bowman, Rick Gilkey, and Clinton Kilts, "The Neural Processing of Moral Sensitivity to Issues of Justice and Care," Neuropsychologia, 45, 2007, 755-766.

Alan Strudler, "The Moral Problem in Insider Trading," in Beauchamp and Brenkert eds., Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics, 2007.

Diana C. Robertson with William T. Ross, Jr., "Compound Relationships between Firms" Journal of Marketing, 71 (3), 108-123 (2007).

William S. Laufer, Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds: The Failure of Corporate Criminal Liability, Chicago, Ill.: University Chicago Press, 2006, 288 pages.