红杏直播 and East European Studies
Joseph Kolodny Professor of Social Responsibility in Business and Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics
LL.M. Duke 1988,
J.D. Duke 1988,
A.B. Harvard 1982
Phil Nichols teaches and conducts research on social and economic development, emerging economies, and corruption. He has conducted fieldwork in or has worked with organizations in more than twenty countries on issues of corruption control or business development, including several countries in the former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe. Professor Nichols currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Anti-Corruption Law Interest Group, and previously served as the Co-Chair of UN/CEFACT LG (the United Nations鈥� expert committee on trade facilitation), and as Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law鈥檚 interest group on International Economic Law. He also served as the President of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business. At Penn, Professor Nichols is the Faculty Director of Stouffer College House, where he has lived with his family for the past twenty years. Prior to joining the faculty at Wharton, Professor Nichols practiced international law with law firms in Boston and Washington.
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Research Interests
Institutional change in the former Soviet Union; corruption control; social impact and development.
Selected Publications
Thinking 红杏直播 Bribery: Neuroscience, Moral Cognition, and Psychology of Bribery (with Diana Robertson, co-edited volume, 2017), Cambridge University Press
鈥淎rticle 39,鈥� in Commentary on the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (Michael Kubiciel, Oliver Landwehr & Cecily Rose editors, forthcoming 2019), Oxford University Press
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鈥淎rticle 38,鈥� in Commentary on the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (Michael Kubiciel, Oliver Landwehr & Cecily Rose editors, forthcoming 2019), Oxford University Press
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鈥淎rticle 37,鈥� in Commentary on the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (Michael Kubiciel, Oliver Landwehr & Cecily Rose editors, forthcoming 2019), Oxford University Press
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鈥淧romoting Creating Shared Value Strategies as a Tool for Controlling Corruption,鈥� in Anti-Corruption in Research, in Practice and in the Classroom (Wolfgang Amann and Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch editors, forthcoming 2018), Information Age Publishing
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鈥淢aximizing Stakeholder Trust as a Tool for Controlling Corruption,鈥� Crime, Law and Social Change 67:1-25 (2018)
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鈥淏ribery and the Study of Decision Making,鈥� in Thinking 红杏直播 Bribery: Neuroscience, Moral Cognition and the Psychology of Bribery 1-30 (Philip M. Nichols and Diana C. Robertson editors, 2017), Cambridge University Press (with Diana C. Robertson)
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鈥淭houghts on the Control of Bribery,鈥� in Thinking 红杏直播 Bribery: Neuroscience, Moral Cognition and the Psychology of Bribery 239-265 (Philip M. Nichols and Diana C. Robertson editors, 2017), Cambridge University Press (with Diana C. Robertson)
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鈥淲hat is Organizational Corruption?,鈥� in Handbook of Business and Corruption: Cross-Sectoral Experiences 3-23 (Michael A脽l盲nder and Sarah Hudson editors, 2017), Emerald Group Publishing
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听鈥淭he Neomercantilist Fallacy and the Contextual Reality of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,鈥� Harvard Journal on Legislation 53(1), 203-246 (2016)
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鈥淭he Good Bribe,鈥� UC Davis Law Review 49(2), 647-683 (2015)
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鈥淎re Facilitating Payments Legal?,鈥� Virginia Journal of International Law 54(1), 127-155 (2013)
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鈥淭he Business Case for Complying With Bribery Laws,鈥� American Business Law Journal 49(2), 325-368 (2012)
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听鈥淯nited States v. Lazarenko:听 Filling in Gaps in Support and Regulation of Transnational Relationships,鈥� University of Chicago Legal Forum 2012, 41-89 (2012)
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鈥淭he Psychic Costs of Violating Corruption Laws,鈥� Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 45(1),145-210 (2012)
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听鈥淐ollective Action to Combat Public Sector Corruption: Four Necessary Steps,鈥� Global Business & International Management Conference Journal 5(3), 89-100 (2012)
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鈥淭he Perverse Effect of Campaign Contribution Limits: Reducing the Allowable Amounts Increases the Likelihood of Corruption in the Federal Legislature,鈥� American Business Law Journal 48(1), 77-118 (2011) awarded Hoeber Award as the best article published in volume 48
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鈥淲ho Allows Facilitating Payments?鈥� Agora Without Frontiers [Greece] 14(4), 303-323 (2009)
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鈥淢ultiple Communities and Controlling Corruption,鈥� Journal of Business Ethics 88(4), 805-813 (2009)
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鈥淯sing Sociological Theories of Isomorphism to Evaluate the Possibility of Regime Change Through Trade Sanction,鈥� University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 30(3), 753-788 (2009)
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鈥淪overeignty and Reform of the World Trade Organization,鈥� in Redefining Sovereignty in International Economic Law 147-158 (Wenhua Shan editor, 2007), Society of Legal Scholars: Hart
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鈥淭he Impact of the Failures of the Doha Round on Trade Regimes in Asia,鈥� in International Economic Law and China in Its Economic Transition 71-100 (Huiping Chen editor, 2007), Chinese Law Series: Hein
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鈥淐orruption as an Assurance Problem,鈥� American University International Law Review 19(6), 1307-1349 (2004)
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鈥淐orruption as a Pan-Cultural Phenomenon:听 An Empirical Study in Countries at Opposite Ends of the Former Soviet Empire,鈥� Texas Journal of International Law 听听听听听听听听听听听 39(2), 215-256 (2004) (with George J. Siedel & Matthew Kasdin)
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鈥淭he Fit Between Changes to the International Corruption Regime and Indigenous Perceptions of Corruption in Kazakhstan,鈥� University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law 22(4), 863-973 (2001)
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鈥淧rivatization Techniques for Central Asia,鈥� Central Asian Journal of Management, Economics and Social Research 2(2), 45-56 (2001)
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鈥淒ealing With an Eruption of Corruption,鈥� in Mastering Risk 187-190 (James Pickford editor, 2001), Prentice Hall
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鈥淭he Myth of Antibribery Laws as Transnational Intrusion,鈥� Cornell International Law Journal 33(3), 627-655 (2000)
Affiliations
Academy of Legal Studies in Business; American Society of International Law; Central Eurasian Studies Society