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John Hasnas

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John Hasnas is an associate professor of business at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and a visiting Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches courses in ethics and law. He has also taught in the law schools at Duke, George Mason, American, and Temple University and been a visiting scholar at Georgetown University's Kennedy School of Ethics and the Social Philosophy and Policy Center in Bowling Green, Ohio. He is an expert on jurisprudence, legal history, and white-collar crime and is currently at work on a book on common law liberalism. He received his J.D. and Ph.D. in Legal Philosophy from Duke University, and his LL.M. in Legal Education from Temple Law School.


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Books and Book Chapters

“Two Theories of Environmental Regulation,” in Natural Resources, the Environment, and Human Welfare (2009).

Trapped: When Acting Ethically Is Against the Law, (2006)

“Toward a Theory of Empirical Natural Rights,” in Natural Rights Liberalism from Locke to Nozick (2005).

"The Significant Meaninglessness of Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States," from Cato Supreme Court Review: 2004-2005.

Articles and Newsletters

"The Discordance of New York Central Jazz," Regulation, vol. 33, no. 1, Spring 2010.

Opinion and Commentary

"The 'Unseen' Deserve Empathy, Too," The Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2009

"Do Nothing," The Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2006

"White-Collar Crime: End the Draft," National Law Journal, April 24, 2006

"Department of Coercion," The Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2006




Multimedia

Events Free Market Fairness with John Samples and John Tomasi (April 19, 2012) [Events, 55:22]

Daily Podcast Trapped between Business Ethics and the Law (June 28, 2006) [Daily Podcast, 07:27]