Gwendolyn Gordon

Gwen Gordon was appointed to the department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics in 2013. Her research is an ethnographicallyinformed comparative corporate law, focusing specifically on the intersection of indigenous peoples' cultural norms with issues of corporate governance and social responsibility. She has done longterm ethnographic fieldwork in New Zealand with an indigenously owned corporation. She received a B.A. in 2002 from Cornell University and her J.D. in 2006 from Harvard Law School, where she focused upon social and economic human rights for indigenous groups. She received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Princeton University in 2014; prior to this she worked as a corporate attorney in the London and New York offices of Shearman and Sterling LLP.

Gwendolyn Gordon (Forthcoming), Ethical Bankers.

Gwendolyn Gordon (Forthcoming), Who Speaks the Culture of the Corporation?.

Gwendolyn Gordon (2016), Culture in Corporate Law, Seattle University Law Review, 39 (2), pp. 353396.

Gwendolyn Gordon (Work In Progress), Bones, Breath, Body: The Life of an Indigenously Owned Corporation (Book Project).

Gwendolyn Gordon (Work In Progress), Corporate Contagion: Ethnographic Insights Into the Nature of the Firm.

Gwendolyn Gordon (Work In Progress), Maori Acumen: Talking Business and Talking Culture in an Indigenously Owned Corporation.

Gwendolyn Gordon (Work In Progress), The Court and the Kids: Narrative, Image, and the Making of the Corporate Self.

Gwendolyn Gordon (2014), History and the Anthropology of Firms: A Legal Perspective , Journal of Business Anthropology, 3 (1).

Past Courses

LGST101 LAW AND SOCIAL VALUES

This course presents law as an evolving social institution, with special emphasis on the legal regulation of business in the context of social values. It considers basic concepts of law and legal process, in the U.S. and other legal systems, and introduces the fundamentals of rigorous legal analysis. An indepth examination of contract law is included.

LGST230 SOCIAL IMPACT & RESP

What role can business play in helping to meet global societal needs, whether it involves the environment, improving health, expanding education or eradicating poverty? Is there any responsibility on the part of business to help meet those needs? What are models of successful business engagement in this area? How should success be measured? Are there limits to what businesses can and should do, and what institutional changes will enable businesses and entrepreneurs to better succeed? ,This survey course provides students the opportunity to engage in the critical analysis of these and other questions that lie at the foundation of social impact and responsibility as an area of study. The course involves case studies, conceptual issues, and talks by practitioners. The course is designed to help students develop a framework to address the question: How should business enterprises and business thinking be engaged to improve society in areas not always associated with business? The course is required for the secondary concentration in Social Impact and Responsibility

Knowledge @ Wharton

If Corporations Are ‘People,’ How Are They Held Accountable?, Knowledge @ Wharton 07/20/2016