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Philip M. Nichols
Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Chair Associate Professor of the University of Pennsylvania, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics


Education

JD, Duke University, 1988; LLM, Duke University, 1988; AB, Harvard University, 1982

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards

Fulbright Fellowship; Excellence in Teaching Award (Undergraduate Division), 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2006; David W. Hauck Award for Outstanding Teaching, 1996; Lindback Award, 2000; Rappaport Core Teaching Award 2004, 2009.

Academic Positions Held

Wharton: 1992-present. Visiting Appointments: National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India; Korea University, Seoul, South Korea

Other Positions

Judicial Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1988-89

Professional Leadership 2005-2009

Reviewer, American Business Law Journal

Corporate and Public Sector Leadership 2005-2009

Co-Chair, United Nations Committee on Electronic Commerce and Trade Facilitation Law Group (Geneve, Switzerland)

Publications
Philip M. Nichols (2011), The Perverse Effect of Campaign Contribution Limits: Reducing the Allowable Amounts Increases the Likelihood of Corruption in the Federal Legislature, American Business Law Journal
Philip M. Nichols (2009), Multiple Communities and Corruption, Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 14, 805-813
Philip M. Nichols (2009), Who Allows Facilitating Payments?, Agora Without Frontiers [Greece], Volume 14, 303-323
Philip M. Nichols (2009), Using Sociological Theories of Isomorphism to Evaluate the Possibility of Regime Change Through Trade Sanction, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Volume 30, 753-788
Philip M. Nichols (2004), Corruption as an Assurance Problem, American University International Law Review, Volume 19, 1307-1349

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Current Research
Philip M. Nichols, Corruption as a Pan-Cultural Phenomenon: An Empirical Study In Countries at Opposite Ends of the Former Soviet Empire
Philip M. Nichols, Indicia of Moral Imperialism in the Laws Implementing the OECD Anticorruption Convention
Philip M. Nichols, Manifestations of Corruption in Southeast Asia
Philip M. Nichols, Creating Generalized Trust in the Face of Corruption and Non-Cooperation
Philip M. Nichols, Reconceptualizing the Rule of Law

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In The News
Rights group: Ghana's gold mines rife with abuse, Associated Press, 10/29/2010, Philip M. Nichols
The corruption eruption, The Economist, 04/29/2010, Philip M. Nichols

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Knowledge@Wharton
Wharton's Philip Nichols: 'We Have to Line up Incentives So People Don't Act Corruptly', 12/02/2010, Philip M. Nichols

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Honors And Awards
Rappaport Core Teaching Award, 2009
The Ralph J. Bunche Award for the Best International Law Paper by the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 2002
Lindback Award for Teaching, 2000
David W. Hauck Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, 1996

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Nichols M. Philip
Philip M. Nichols
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Research Interests:
International trade and investment; emerging economies