Teaching Faculty Profiles

William S. Laufer
Julian Aresty Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School;
Director, Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research;
Professor of Sociology and Criminology;
Chairperson, Department of Criminology, School of Arts and Sciences

PhD, Rutgers University, 1987; JD, Northeastern University School of Law, 1983; BA, The Johns Hopkins University, 1979

Research Areas

Corporate criminal law; corporate ethics; law and psychology; criminology.

Current Projects

Exploring a theoretical foundation for corporate criminal law and corporate social control.

Academic Positions Held

Wharton School
2000-present: Director, Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research
1989-95: Anheuser-Busch Term Assistant Professor of Legal Studies
1989-90: Associate Director, Sellin Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law.

Visiting appointment:
New York University (School of Law)

Career and Recent Professional Awards

Miller-Sherrerd MBA Core Teaching Award, 2000-2003

David W. Hauck Award, 1990-1992, 1996-1999, 2000, 2004-2006

Marc & Sheri Rapaport Undergraduate Core Teaching Award, 2002

Graduate Division Excellence in Teaching Award, 2001, 2002

Representive Publications

Corporate Crime and Making Amends. American Criminal Law Review, 44 (2007).

Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds: The Failure of Corporate Criminal Liability (University of Chicago Press, 2006)

Corporate Prosecution, Cooperation, and the Trading of Favors. Iowa Law Review 87 (2002).

Corporate Intentionality, Desert, and Variants of Strict Liability. American Criminal Law Review 38 (2000). (with A. Strudler)

Corporate Liability, Risk Shifting, and the Paradox of Compliance. Vanderbilt Law Review 54 (1999).

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