JOHN HASNAS
 

ADDRESS

Office:    George Mason University School of Law
                3401 N. Fairfax Drive
                Arlington, VA 22201
                Voice - (703) 993-8980
                Fax - (703) 993-8124
                E-mail - jhasnas@gmu.edu

EDUCATION

LL.M., Legal Education, Temple University School of Law, 1992
Ph.D., Philosophy, Duke University, 1988
J.D., Duke University School of Law, 1978
B.A., Philosophy, Lafayette College, 1974

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1999 - Associate Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law

           Courses Taught: Torts, White Collar Crime, Bioethics

1997-1999 Assistant General Counsel, Koch Industries, Inc.

1991- Senior Research Fellow, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Washington, DC

1991-97 Assistant Professor of Business Ethics and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University

           Courses taught: Business Ethics, Legal History Seminar: Law and Equity (Georgetown Law Center)

1994 Visiting Scholar, Social Philosophy And Policy Center, Bowling Green, OH

1989-91 Law and Humanities Fellow, Temple University School of Law

           Courses taught: Bioethics, Criminal Law, Contracts, Jurisprudence

1987-89 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas, Arlington

           Courses taught: Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy
 

SCHOLARSHIP

Law Review Articles:

"The Dangerous Dichotomy of Democracy's Discontent or Michael Sandel and the Fallacy of the False Dilemma," 85 Georgetown Law Journal 2139 (1997)

"What's Wrong with a Little Tort Reform?" 32 Idaho Law Review 557 (1996)

"Back to the Future: From Critical Legal Studies Forward to Legal Realism, or How Not to Miss the Point of the Indeterminacy Argument," 45 Duke Law Journal 84 (1995)

"From Cannibalism to Caesareans: Two Conceptions of Fundamental Rights," 89 Northwestern University Law Review 900 (1995)

"The Myth of the Rule of Law," 1995 Wisconsin Law Review 199 (1995)

"Affirmative Action and the New Discrimination: A Reply to Duncan Kennedy," 54 Louisiana Law Review 263 (1993)

Other Publications:

"Ethics and Information Systems: The Corporate Domain" (with H. Jefferson Smith) 23 Management of Information Science Quarterly 109 (1999)

"The Normative Theories of Business Ethics: A Guide for the Perplexed," 8 Business Ethics Quarterly 19 (1998)

"Who Put the Public in Public Philosophy?" 8 The Good Society 19 (1998)

"Sexual Harassment" in Werhane and Freeman, The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics (1997)

"Are There Derivative Natural Rights?" 9 Public Affairs Quarterly 215 (1995)

Attempting the Impossible: The Conditions for Culpability (Dissertation, 1988) Criminal law: An account of the mens rea and actus reus necessary to sustain a conviction for attempting a crime that is impossible to complete.
 

BAR ADMISSIONS

North Carolina
 

LECTURES, COLUMNS, AND PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:

"Equality and Discrimination," Mercatus Center Executive Seminar Series, Capitol Hill, August 2000

"Campaign Finance Reform: The Benefits of a Bad Idea," Koch Summer Fellows Program, June 2000

"Law and Economics Seminar: Tort Law," Mercatus Center Capitol Hill Course, June 1999

"Restitution and the Criminal Law," Washington University School of Law, February 1999

"How the Provisions of Oxford of 1259 Protected Agnes Syster from the Predations of Arthur Murray Dance Studio #51540," Centers for the Study of Emerging Institutions Conference, Reykjavík, Iceland, October 1998

Panelist, "Judgment Day: A Lawyer's Soul on Trial," Ethics CLE presentation, Robert T. Roberts Inn of Court, Kansas City, Missouri, September 1998

"Corporate Responsibility," Conference on "Ethics, Law, and the Tobacco Industry," Virginia Commonwealth University, November 1997

"Three Theories of Discrimination," University of Texas, Austin, March 1997

"How the Provisions of Oxford of 1259 Made Ronald Dworkin a Star (and Incidentally Helped Give Rise to the Critical Legal Studies Movement)," University of Missouri-St. Louis, February 1997

"Considerations on Liberty, the Rule of Law, Shoes, and Unrequited Love," Washington and Lee University, January 1997

"The Economics of Tort Reform," Southern Economic Association Conference, November 1996

"A Tale of Two Tort Systems," George Mason University School of Law, November 1996

"Overconsumption, Environmental Ethics, and the Common Law," Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 1996

Public Radio, "New York Beat," WNYC, Interview concerning smoking and the Americans with Disabilities Act, August 1995

Op-ed article, "New Life for Smokers," Washington Post, August 20, 1995

"How the Provisions of Oxford of 1259 Made Ronald Dworkin a Star (and Incidentally Helped Give Rise to the Critical Legal Studies Movement)," Stanford Law School, April 1995

"Considerations on Liberty, the Rule of Law, Shoes, and Unrequited Love," Loyola University, New Orleans, Business School/Economics Department, March 1995

"Common Law, Legislation, and Market Failure," Loyola University, New Orleans, Business School/Economics Department, March 1995

"Critical Legal Studies, Legal Realism, and Public Choice," New York University Department of Economics, November 1994

"How the Provisions of Oxford of 1259 Made Ronald Dworkin a Star (and Incidentally Helped Give Rise to the Critical Legal Studies Movement)," Social Philosophy and Policy Center, April 1994

"How Not to Miss the Point of the Indeterminacy Argument," Social Philosophy and Policy Center, March 1994

"From Cannibalism to Caesareans: Two Concepts of Fundamental Rights," Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 1994

"Affirmative Action in the Legal Academy, " University of Toledo School of Law, February 1994

"Back to the Future: From Critical Legal Studies Forward to Legal Realism or How Not to Miss the Point of the Indeterminacy Argument," Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 1993

Public Television, "The Open Mind," WNYC, New York, September, 1993

Public Radio, "Georgetown University Forum," July 1993

"Affirmative Action and the New Discrimination in Academic Hiring," Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 1993

Invited Speaker, Forum on Multiculturalism in Education, Georgetown University Law Center, March 2, 1993

Op-ed article, Published as "Overgrazing Till the Cows Come Home" by the L.A. Times, November 1, 1992 and as "The Tragedy of the Commons -- and the Congress" by the Baltimore Sun, November 20, 1992

"Why the Law Should Not Recognize Welfare Rights," Washington and Lee University School of Law, March 1992

"Law and Spontaneous Order: Classical Liberalism Meets the Critical Legal Studies Movement," University of Virginia School of Law, February 1992