John Hasnas is a professor of law (by courtesy) at Georgetown University Law Center, a professor of business at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, and the executive director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics. Professor Hasnas has held previous appointments as associate professor of law at George Mason University School of Law, visiting associate professor of law at Duke University School of Law and the Washington College of Law at American University, and Law and Humanities Fellow at Temple University School of Law. Professor Hasnas has also been a visiting scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics in Washington, DC and the Social Philosophy and Policy Center in Bowling Green, Ohio. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Lafayette College, his J.D. and Ph.D. in Legal Philosophy from Duke University, and his LL.M. in Legal Education from Temple Law School. His scholarship concerns ethics and white collar crime, jurisprudence, and legal history.

Scholarship

Books

John Hasnas, Common Law Liberalism: A New Theory of the Libertarian Society (New York: Oxford University Press 2024). [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

John Hasnas, Freedom of Speech and the Common Law: A Contrarian Perspective, 21 Geo. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 541-558 (2023). [W] [L]
John Hasnas, Free Speech on Campus: Countering the Climate of Fear, 20 Geo. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 975-1008 (2022).  [W] [SSRN]
John Hasnas, Symposium, Imagining a World Without Corporate Criminal Law: The Forlorn Hope: A Final Attempt to Storm the Fortress of Corporate Criminal Liability, 47 J. Corp. L. 1009-1028 (2022). [WWW] [HEIN] [W] [L]
John Hasnas, Market Failure, Regulation, and Invisible Gorillas, 19 Geo. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y (Special Issue) 813-840 (2021).
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