John Hasnas

John Hasnas is a professor of business at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business and a professor of law (by courtesy) at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, where he teaches courses in ethics and law. Professor Hasnas is also the excutive director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, whose tripartite mission is to produce high-quality research on matters related to the ethics of market activity, improve ethics pedagogy, and educate the broader, non-academic community about ethical issues related to the functioning of markets. Professor Hasnas has held previous appointments as associate professor of law at George Mason University School of Law, visiting associate professor of law at Duke University School of Law and the Washington College of Law at American University, and Law and Humanities Fellow at Temple University School of Law. Professor Hasnas has also been a visiting scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics in Washington, DC and the Social Philosophy and Policy Center in Bowling Green, Ohio. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Lafayette College, his J.D. and Ph.D. in Legal Philosophy from Duke University, and his LL.M. in Legal Education from Temple Law School. His scholarship concerns ethics and white collar crime, jurisprudence, and legal history.

Education

• Temple University - L.L.M.
• Duke University - Ph.D.
• Duke University - J.D.
• Lafayette College - B.A

Publications

Books (1)

John Hasnas. Trapped: When Acting Ethically Is Against the Law. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2006.

Articles in Journals (35)

John Hasnas. "A Context for Evaluating Department of Justice Policy on the Prosecution of Business Organizations: Is the Department of Justice Playing in the Right Ballpark?." American Criminal Law Review, 51 (2014): 7.

John Hasnas. "Lobbying and Self-defense." Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, 12 (2014): 391.

John Hasnas. "Is There a Duty to Obey the LAw?." Social Philosophy and Policy, 30 (2013): 450.

John Hasnas. "Teaching Business Ethics: The Principles Approach." Journal of Business Ethics Education, 10 (2013): 275.

John Hasnas. "Whither Stakeholder Theory?: A Guide for the Perplexed Revisited." Journal of Business Ethics, 112 (2013): 47.

John Hasnas. "Attempt, Preparation, and Harm: The Case of the Jealous Ex-Husband." Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 9 (2012): 761-769.

John Hasnas. "Is Moral Imagination the Cure for Misapplied Judicial Empathy?: Bandes, Bastiat, and the Quest for Justice." Washburn Law Review, 51 (2012): 25-47.

John Hasnas. "Reflections on Corporate Moral Responsibility and the Problem Solving Technique of Alexander the Great." Journal of Business Ethics, 107 (2012): 183-.

John Hasnas. "Between Scylla and Chaybdis: Ethical Dilemmas of Corporate Counsel in the World of the Holder Memorandum." Valparaiso University Law Review, 44 (2010): 1119-1215.

John Hasnas, Robert Prentice, Alan Strudler. "New Directions in Legal Scholarship: Implications for Business and Business Ethics Theory and Research." Business Ethics Quarterly, 20 (2010): 503-.

John Hasnas. "Where Is Felix Cohen When We Need Him?: Transcendental Nonsense and the Moral Responsibility of Corporations." Brooklyn Journal of Law and Policy, 19 (2010): 55-82.

John Hasnas. "The Centenary of a Mistake: One Hundred Years of Corporate Criminal Liability." American Criminal Law Review, 46 (2009): 1329-1358.

Hasnas, J.. "Two Theories of Environmental Regulation." Social Philosophy and Policy, 26 (2009): 95-.

John Hasnas. "Managing the Risks of Legal Compliance: Conflicting Demands of Law and Ethics." Loyola Law Journal, 39 (2008): 507-524.

John Hasnas. "The Depoliticization of Law." Theoretical Inquries in Law, 9, 2 (2008): 529-552.

John Hasnas. "Confusion About Hayek's Confusion." NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, 2 (2007): 241.

John Hasnas. "Foreword to Corporate Criminality: Legal, Ethical, and Managerial Implications." American Criminal Law Review, 44 (2007): 1269-1278.

John Hasnas. "Up from Flatland: Business Ethics in the Age of Divergence." Business Ethics Quarterly, 39 (2007): 399-426.

John Hasnas. "Unethical Compliance and the Non Sequitur of Academic Business Ethics." Journal of Private Enterprise (2006)

John Hasnas. "Ethics and the Problem of White Collar Crime." American University Law Review, 54 (2005)

John Hasnas. "Hayek, Common Law, and Fluid Drive." New York University Journal of Law & Liberty, 1 (2005)

John Hasnas. "Reflections on the Minimal State." Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 2 (2005)

John Hasnas. "The Significant Meaninglessness of Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States." Cato Supreme Court Review, 2005 (2005)

John Hasnas. "Toward a Theory of Empirical Natural Rights." Social Philosophy and Policy, 22 (2005)

John Hasnas. "Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action, and the Anti-Discrimination Principle: The Philosophical Basis for the Legal Prohibition of Discrimination." Fordham Law Review, 71 (2002)

John Hasnas. "Once More unto the Breach: The Inherent Liberalism of the Criminal Law and Liability for Attempting the Impossible." Hastings Law Journal, 54 (2002)

John Hasnas. "Ethics and Information Systems: The Corporate Domain." Management Information Systems Quarterly, 23 (1999)

John Hasnas. "The Normative Theories of Business Ethics: A Guide for the Perplexed." Business Ethics Quarterly, 8 (1998)

John Hasnas. "The Dangerous Dichotomy of Democracy’s Discontent or Michael Sandel and the Fallacy of the False Dilemma." Georgetown Law Journal, 85 (1997)

John Hasnas. "What’s Wrong with a Little Tort Reform?." Idaho Law Review, 32 (1996)

John Hasnas. "Are There Derivative Natural Rights?." Public Affairs Quarterly, 9 (1995)

John Hasnas. "Back to the Future: From Critical Legal Studies Forward to Legal Realism, or How Not to Miss the Point of the Indeterminacy Argument." Duke Law Journal, 45 (1995)

John Hasnas. "From Cannibalism to Caesareans: Two Conceptions of Fundamental Rights." Northwestern University Law Review, 89 (1995)

John Hasnas. "The Myth of the Rule of Law." Wisconsin Law Review, 1995 (1995)

John Hasnas. "Affirmative Action and the New Discrimination: A Reply to Duncan Kennedy." Louisiana Law Review, 54 (1993)

Articles in Books (2)

John Hasnas. "The Mirage of Product Safety." The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics, 677-. Oxford University Press, 2009.

John Hasnas. "The Obviousness of Anarchy." Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country?, 111-131. Ashgate Press, 2008.