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William S. Laufer
Julian Aresty Professor; Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Sociology, and Criminology


Education

PhD, Rutgers University; JD, Northeastern University School of Law; BA, The Johns Hopkins University

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards

Miller-Sherrerd MBA Core Teaching Award, 2000-2003; David W. Hauck Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Undergraduate Division, 1991, 1997 (first recipient non-tenured faculty member, 1991; first recipient of award for non-tenured and tenured faculty, 1997); Excellence in Teaching Award (Undergraduate Division) (1990-1993, 1996-2001; 2004-2006; 2008-2010); Marc & Sheri Rapaport Undergraduate Core Teaching Award, 2002; Graduate Division Excellence in Teaching Award, 2001, 2002

Academic Positions Held

Wharton: 1989-present (named Julian Aresty Endowed Professor, 2007); Director, Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research, 2000-2010; Anheuser-Busch Term Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, 1989-95; Associate Director, Sellin Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law, 1989-90). School of Arts and Sciences: Chair, Department of Criminology, 2008-2009; Graduate Chair, Department of Criminology, 2009-2010; Visiting appointment: New York University School of Law

Professional Leadership 2005-2009

Member, Academic Council, Hills Program Governance, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., 2002-present; Board Member, International Society of Social Defense and Humane Criminal Policy, Economic and Social Council, United Nations, 2004-present; Member, Working Group on Business-Led Collective Action Against Corruption, World Bank Institute, 2007-present; Member, Working Group, PRME Anti-Corruption Working Group, UN Global Compact, 2010-present; Member, United Nations Global Compact Academic Advisory Team, 2006-2007; Advisory Board Member, Business Contributions to the Millennium Development Goals, United Nations Development Programme, 2006-2007; Member, International Advisory Board, Program on Global Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Competitiveness, World Bank Institute, 2005-2008

Publications
William S. Laufer, A. Strudler (2007), Corporate Crime and Making Amends, American Criminal Law Review, 44(4), 1307-1318 (2007).
William S. Laufer (2006), Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds: The Failure of Corporate Criminal Liability, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
William S. Laufer (1999), Corporate Liability, Risk Shifting, and the Paradox of Compliance, Vanderbilt Law Review, 54, 1343 (1999).
William S. Laufer (1994), Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds, Emory Law Journal, 79, 649-732 (1994).

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Laufer S. William
William S. Laufer
670 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
3730 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215) 898-7693
lauferw@wharton.upenn.edu

Research Interests:
Corporate criminal law; corporate ethics; law and psychology; criminology