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Nicolas Cornell Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department Phone: (215) 573-0601 The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Fax: (215) 573-2006 600 Jon M. Huntsman Hall Office: 669 Jon M. Huntsman Hall 3730 Walnut Street Email: [email protected] Philadelphia, PA 19104 Homepage: http://scholar.harvard.edu/ncornell Academic Positions Assistant Professor, Michigan Law School commencing Fall 2017 Assistant Professor, Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania with affiliated appointment in the Department of Philosophy Fall 2013 until Spring 2017 Education Ph.D. Philosophy, Harvard University, 2014 Dissertation: Wrongs without Rights Committee: Christine M. Korsgaard, T.M. Scanlon, Frances Kamm, John C.P. Goldberg J.D., Magna Cum Laude, Harvard Law School, 2010 Articles Co-Chair, Harvard Law Review A.B. Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude, Harvard University, 2004 Areas of Interest Specialization: Ethics, Contract Law, Philosophy of Law Competence: Remedies, Tort Law, Political Philosophy, Environmental Ethics Research Articles The Possibility of Preemptive Forgiving, Philosophical Review (forthcoming). Wrongful Benefit & Arctic Drilling, U.C. Davis Law Review, Vo. 50 (forthcoming 2017). The Aesthetic Toll of Nudging, Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 14 (forthcoming 2016). A Complainant-Oriented Approach to Unconscionability and Contract Law, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 164, pp.1131-1175 (2016). Wrongs, Rights, and Third Parties, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 109-143 (2015). The Puzzle of the Beneficiary’s Bargain, Tulane Law Review, Vol. 90, pp. 75-128 (2015). A Third Theory of Paternalism, Michigan Law Review, Vol. 113, pp.1295-1336 (2015). Nicolas Cornell 2 Essays & Commentary Ripstein’s Buttery Rights, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies (forthcoming). Vicarious Complaints and Normative Diversity: A Reply to Sage, Tulane Law Review Online (forthcoming 2016). Foreword: In Defense of Animals, Penn Undergraduate Law Journal Vol. 2, No. 2 (2015). On Homer Blosser Reed’s “The Morals of Monopoly and Competition,” Ethics, Vol. 125, No. 2 (2015). Review of Michel Anteby’s “Manufacturing Morals,” Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 52, No. 3 (2014). Overbreadth and Listeners’ Rights, Harvard Law Review, Vol. 123, pp.1749-70 (2010). The Supreme Court, 2008 Term-Leading Cases, Harvard Law Review, Vol. 123, pp.302-12 (2009). New York Court of Appeals Holds that Insurers May Be Liable for Consequential Damages, Harvard Law Review, Vol. 122, pp.998-1008 (2009). Works in Progress Wrongs, Rights, and Remedial Ambiguity (under review) Sins in the Heart The Rights of Uncomplaining Animals Inattention & Negligence Conference and Seminar Presentations Arctic Drilling and Wrongful Benefit Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, July 1, 2016. Philosophy Desert Workshop, Sedona, AZ, April 8, 2016. Wharton Legal Studies & Business Ethics Research Seminar, October 22, 2015. Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT, October 3, 2015. Inattention & Negligence Accountability for Attitudes Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 1, 2016. The Possibility of Preemptive Forgiving University of Vermont, Department of Philosophy, February 5, 2016. American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Washington, DC, January 7, 2016. Institute for Law and Philosophy Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, November 9, 2015. National Institute of Health, Bioethics Division, Washington, DC, May 11, 2015. Joint Session of Legal Philosophy Workshop & Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Workshop, UCLA Law School April 16, 2015. The Aesthetic Harms of Nudging Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, Washington, DC, November 20, 2015. Wrongs, Rights, and Remedial Ambiguity Dartmouth Workshop on Legal Philosophy, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 6, 2016. Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 10, 2015. Harvard-Yale-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, Harvard Law School June 17, 2015. Nicolas Cornell 3 Association for Legal and Social Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Leeds, July 1, 2014. University of Pennsylvania, Department of Philosophy, April 25, 2014. Bechtel Workshop in Moral and Political Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, April 12, 2014. Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics 8th Annual Conference, Northwestern University, March 15, 2014. The Puzzle of the Beneficiary’s Bargain Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 22, 2016. Wharton School, Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department, Junior Faculty Workshop, July 30, 2014. 9th Annual International Conference on Contracts, St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami Gardens, Florida, February 21, 2014. A Complainant-Oriented Approach to Unconscionability and Contract Law Stanford University, Department of Philosophy, January 24, 2014 Harvard Law School, February 14, 2013. University of Utah, Department of Philosophy, January 28, 2013. Wharton School, Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department January 8, 2013. Harvard University, Harvard Moral & Political Philosophy Workshop, September 10, 2012. Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, July 1-3, 2011. McMaster International Conference on Legal Theory, Hamilton, Canada, May 11-15, 2011. Harvard University, Moral & Political Philosophy Workshop, January 8, 2008. Sins in the Heart Wellesley College, Department of Philosophy, Wellesley, Massachusetts February 11, 2013. Trinity University, Department of Philosophy, San Antonio, Texas January 24, 2013. Harvard University, Department of Philosophy, January 16, 2013. Harvard University, Moral & Political Philosophy Workshop, January 7, 2009. Wrongs, Rights, and Third Parties Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference, St. Anne’s College, Oxford June 28, 2014. Dartmouth College, David Plunkett’s Philosophy of Law seminar, May 21, 2013. Association for Legal and Social Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, July 4-6, 2011. Intermountain West Graduate Philosophy Conference, University of Utah, April 7-9, 2011. Harvard University, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, March 21, 2011. Harvard University, Moral & Political Philosophy Workshop, February 4, 2008. Three Theories of Paternalism MANCEPT Workshops, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, September 5, 2013. The Rights of Uncomplaining Animals MANCEPT Workshops, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, September 5, 2013. Abortion, Historical Facts, and the Child’s Complaint Harvard University, Moral & Political Philosophy Workshop, April 15, 2011. Nicolas Cornell 4 Harvard Law School, Frances Kamm’s Bioethics seminar, March 21, 2011. Wronging and Aggregation, or, Why Pairwise Comparison Makes My Head Spin Harvard University, Moral & Political Philosophy Workshop, October 25, 2010. Atomism and Rights Harvard University, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, October 12, 2010. Law You Can’t Break: How Tort Law Creates No Duties of Care. Harvard University, Moral & Political Philosophy Workshop, September 28, 2009. Comments Comments on Anna Stilz’s “Unilateral Appropriation and Territory,” Dartmouth Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy Workshop, July 27, 2016. Comments on Arthur Ripstein’s Private Wrongs, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies Symposium, Hebrew University, Israel, June 26, 2016. Comments on Seana Shiffrin’s Speech Matters, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division, San Francisco, CA, April 2, 2016. Comments on Michael Kessler’s “Is Childhood a Form of Impaired Consent?” Bechtel Workshop in Moral & Political Philosophy, Boston University, June 29, 2015. Comments on Peter Galison’s “Wastelands and Wilderness,” Philosophy Mountain Workshop 2015, February 8, 2015. Comments on Corporate Rights, “Business, Money, and Politics” Panel, Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 3, 2014. Comments on Tyler Doggett’s “Killing Innocent People,” Dartmouth Ethics & Practical Reason Workshop, July 19,2013. Comments on Micha Glaeser’s “Rawls, Cohen, and the Family,” Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, September 13, 2010. Teaching Penn Law Contracts, Fall 2016, 84 students. Wharton LGST 205: The Law of Marketing & Antitrust: Fall 2016, one section, 17 students. LGST 226: Markets, Morality & Capitalism: Spring 2016, one section, 18 students. LGST 921: Foundations of Business Law — Private Law Theory: Fall 2015, Ph.D. seminar. LGST 210: Corporate Responsibility & Ethics: Fall 2015, one section, 35 students. LGST 226: Markets, Morality & Capitalism: Spring 2015, one section, 33 students. LGST 210: Corporate Responsibility & Ethics: Fall 2014, two sections (one honors), 48 and 23 students. LGST 210: Corporate Responsibility & Ethics: Spring 2014, two sections, 45 and 54 students. Harvard University Equality & Democracy: Spring 2010, teaching assistant for T.M. Scanlon, 39 students. Philosophy of Law: Spring 2008, teaching assistant for Douglas Lavin, 28 students. Justice: Fall 2007, teaching assistant for Michael Sandel, 54 students. Nicolas Cornell 5 Work Experience Law Clerk Associate Justice John A. Dooley, Vermont Supreme Court, 2011-2012. Research Assistant Professor Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School, 2010. Professor Christine Korsgaard, Harvard University, 2008. Professor Eileen McDonagh, Radcliffe Institute