Eric W. Orts Faculty Profile

Eric W. Orts
Guardsmark Professor; Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics and Management
Director, Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership

JSD, Columbia University, 1994; JD, University of Michigan, 1988; MA, New School for Social Research, 1985; BA, Oberlin College, 1982

Research Areas
Corporate and securities law; corporate governance; environmental law and policy

Current Projects
A social theory of the business enterprise; informational regulation of the environment in the digital age (with Paul Kleindorfer).

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1991-present (named Guardsmark Professor, 2003). Visiting appointments: Harvard University; University of California, Santa Barbara; Tsinghua University; University of Leuven; University of California, Los Angeles; University of Michigan 

Other Positions
Associate, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, 1988-90; Columbia University, Chemical Bank Fellow in Corporate Social Responsibility, 1990-91

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Eugene P. Beard Faculty Fellow in Ethics, Center for Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University, 2002-03; Fulbright Scholar, European Union Affairs Research Program, 1998

Corporate and Public Sector Leadership 2003-2007
Board Member, French International School of Philadelphia

Representative Publications
(with K. Deketelaere)
Environmental Contracts: Comparative Approaches to Regulatory Innovation in the United States and Europe. Kluwer Law International (2001).

"War and the Business Corporation." Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 35 (2002).

"Environmental Law with Chinese Characteristics." William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 11 (2003).