Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department

The Legal Studies and Business Ethics department is the Wharton School’s base for scholarship and teaching at the intersection of law, ethics, and business.

Faculty

Learn about our Faculty by exploring profiles highlighting research interests, publications, and ongoing projects.

Kevin Werbach, Chairperson
Liem Sioe Liong/First Pacific Company Professor
Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics
Vice Dean, MBA Program for Executives

Legal Studies and Business Ethics Faculty actively shape the future of business and law, driving critical discourse on international trade regulation, corporate criminal law, and business ethics.

Featured Faculty

Brian Berkey

research interests:
business ethics, corporate and individual obligations of justice, moral demandingness, climate change ethics, exploitation, effective altruism, animal ethics, ideal and non-ideal theory, collective obligations, methodology in ethics

Legal Studies and Business Ethics Faculty Profiles

Research Innovation

The Ethics of ESG: Critically Assessing the Environmental, Social and Governance Movement

Edited by Valentina Gentile, Eric W. Orts, Andreas Rasche, Alan Strudler

A Dilemma for Expressive Arguments Against Markets

Julian Jonker

The Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Governance & Business Ethics

Research Papers and Publications

Knowledge at Wharton

Academic Programs

Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
600 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
3730 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6340

Phone: (215) 898-7689