Seminars / Conferences

2024-2025

Date Presenter Title
September 20, 2024
1-4:30
  • Wayne Eastman (Rutgers), “Business Ethics as an Idea Exporter: From Economic Competition to Political, Cultural, and Reputational Competition”
  • David Faraci (Durham), “The Ethics of Work and Other Goods of Human Origin”
  • Violet Victoria (Oklahoma), “Issues in the ‘Democratization’ of Financial Markets”
 Zicklin Workshop in Normative Business Ethics
September 26, 2024
12-1:30		 Rory Van Loo
Boston University		 The New Consumer Law
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
October 10, 2024
12-1:30		 Sandra Wachter
University of Oxford		 Limitations and Loopholes in the E.U. AI Act and AI Liability Directives: What This Means for the European Union, The United States, and Beyond
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
October 18, 2024
1-4:30
  • Aaron Chipp-Miller (UC-San-Diego), “The Case for Democracy: Stronger at the Firm than the State”
  • Kobi Finestone (Duke), “The Ethics of Mergers and Acquisitions: It’s Not Business Ethics as Usual”
  • Valerie Monchi (Oxford), “Structural Injustice Without Groups”
 Zicklin Workshop in Normative Business Ethics
December 6, 2024
1-4:30
658 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
  • James Carey (Edinburgh), “Meaning Work and Meaningful Lives”
  • Christian Nakazawa (UC-Berkeley), “The Puzzle of Group Discrimination”
  • Jordan Walters (McGill), “Longtermism and the Dead”
 Zicklin Workshop in Normative Business Ethics
November 21 , 2024
12-1:30		 Rebecca Allensworth
Vanderbilt University		 Long Term Consumer Welfare
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
January 17, 2025
1-4:30
  • Peter Jaworski (Georgetown), “Towards an Ethics-First Approach to Commodity Identification”
  • Santosh Kumar (Delhi), “Gandhi on Ethics and Politics of Redistribution: A Cosmopolitan Enquiry”
  • Daniel Stephens (Buffalo), “Toward a Comprehensive Ethics of Attention”
 Zicklin Workshop in Normative Business Ethics
January 30, 2025 Vanessa Casado Pérez
Texas A&M University, Law		 Water Rights or Wrongs:  Wall Street and Concentration
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
February 6, 2025 Linda Radzik
Texas A&M University		 Why Should the State Protect Reputation?
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
February 13, 2025 Chiara Cordelli
University of Chicago		 What is the Wrong of Capitalism?
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
February 20, 2025 Suneal Bedi
Indiana University		 Litigation Finance in the Market Square
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
February 21, 2025
1-4:30
  • Chris Bousquet (Syracuse), “The Gig Economy, De-Skilling, and Working-Class Loneliness”
  • Daniel Friedman (Stanford), “The Costs of Collaboration”
  • Tammy Harel Ben-Shahar (Haifa), “Lean OUT! The Morality of Positional Competitions”
 Zicklin Workshop in Normative Business Ethics
February 27, 2025 Manisha Padi
UC Berkeley Law		 Financial Regulation and the New Social Safety Net
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
March 6, 2025 – CANCELLED Robert Emerson
University of Florida		 Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
March 21, 2025
1-4:30
  • Elvira Basevich (UC-Davis), “A Duboisian Critique of Private Property: On Democracy and Economic Independence in the Reconstruction Era”
  • Tyler Re & Mike Gadomski (Penn & Coastal Carolina), “Sufficiency and Capitalism”
  • Carissa Veliz (Oxford), “The Do’s and Don’ts of Privacy in Corporate Settings”
 Zicklin Workshop in Normative Business Ethics
April 3, 2025 Hiba Hafiz
Boston College Law		 Towards a Progressive Labor Antitrust
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
April 14, 2025
240 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
R.S.V.P required		  Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science
 Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics
 Claire Finkelstein, Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy
Mitchell A. Orenstein, Professor of Russian and East European Studies
Eric W. Orts, Guardsmark Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics, The Wharton School
Amanda Shanor, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics, The Wharton School
Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Political Science		 The Trump Administration, The Rule of Law, and the Future of Business
Sponsored by:
The Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department
The Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law
The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy
Penn Initiative for the Study of Markets
Penn Program on Regulation

 

To RSVP to an event, please contact Tamara English at englisht@wharton.upenn.edu. In this email, please include the title of the event that you will be attending, your name and affiliation.

*All seminars held in 641 JMHH unless otherwise noted.