Russian 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’ expert committee on trade facilitation), and as Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law’s 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 About Bribery: Neuroscience, Moral Cognition, and Psychology of Bribery (with Diana Robertson, co-edited volume, 2017), Cambridge University Press
“Article 39,” in Commentary on the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (Michael Kubiciel, Oliver Landwehr & Cecily Rose editors, forthcoming 2019), Oxford University Press
“Article 38,” in Commentary on the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (Michael Kubiciel, Oliver Landwehr & Cecily Rose editors, forthcoming 2019), Oxford University Press
“Article 37,” in Commentary on the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (Michael Kubiciel, Oliver Landwehr & Cecily Rose editors, forthcoming 2019), Oxford University Press
“Promoting Creating Shared Value Strategies as a Tool for Controlling Corruption,” in Anti-Corruption in Research, in Practice and in the Classroom (Wolfgang Amann and Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch editors, forthcoming 2018), Information Age Publishing
“Maximizing Stakeholder Trust as a Tool for Controlling Corruption,” Crime, Law and Social Change 67:1-25 (2018)
“Bribery and the Study of Decision Making,” in Thinking About 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)
“Thoughts on the Control of Bribery,” in Thinking About 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)
“What is Organizational Corruption?,” in Handbook of Business and Corruption: Cross-Sectoral Experiences 3-23 (Michael Aßländer and Sarah Hudson editors, 2017), Emerald Group Publishing
“The Neomercantilist Fallacy and the Contextual Reality of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,” Harvard Journal on Legislation 53(1), 203-246 (2016)
“The Good Bribe,” UC Davis Law Review 49(2), 647-683 (2015)
“Are Facilitating Payments Legal?,” Virginia Journal of International Law 54(1), 127-155 (2013)
“The Business Case for Complying With Bribery Laws,” American Business Law Journal 49(2), 325-368 (2012)
“United States v. Lazarenko: Filling in Gaps in Support and Regulation of Transnational Relationships,” University of Chicago Legal Forum 2012, 41-89 (2012)
“The Psychic Costs of Violating Corruption Laws,” Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 45(1),145-210 (2012)
“Collective Action to Combat Public Sector Corruption: Four Necessary Steps,” Global Business & International Management Conference Journal 5(3), 89-100 (2012)
“The Perverse Effect of Campaign Contribution Limits: Reducing the Allowable Amounts Increases the Likelihood of Corruption in the Federal Legislature,” American Business Law Journal 48(1), 77-118 (2011) awarded Hoeber Award as the best article published in volume 48
“Who Allows Facilitating Payments?” Agora Without Frontiers [Greece] 14(4), 303-323 (2009)
“Multiple Communities and Controlling Corruption,” Journal of Business Ethics 88(4), 805-813 (2009)
“Using Sociological Theories of Isomorphism to Evaluate the Possibility of Regime Change Through Trade Sanction,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 30(3), 753-788 (2009)
“Sovereignty and Reform of the World Trade Organization,” in Redefining Sovereignty in International Economic Law 147-158 (Wenhua Shan editor, 2007), Society of Legal Scholars: Hart
“The Impact of the Failures of the Doha Round on Trade Regimes in Asia,” in International Economic Law and China in Its Economic Transition 71-100 (Huiping Chen editor, 2007), Chinese Law Series: Hein
“Corruption as an Assurance Problem,” American University International Law Review 19(6), 1307-1349 (2004)
“Corruption as a Pan-Cultural Phenomenon: An Empirical Study in Countries at Opposite Ends of the Former Soviet Empire,” Texas Journal of International Law 39(2), 215-256 (2004) (with George J. Siedel & Matthew Kasdin)
“The Fit Between Changes to the International Corruption Regime and Indigenous Perceptions of Corruption in Kazakhstan,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law 22(4), 863-973 (2001)
“Privatization Techniques for Central Asia,” Central Asian Journal of Management, Economics and Social Research 2(2), 45-56 (2001)
“Dealing With an Eruption of Corruption,” in Mastering Risk 187-190 (James Pickford editor, 2001), Prentice Hall
“The Myth of Antibribery Laws as Transnational Intrusion,” 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
