J.S. Nelson | School of Law

Professor Nelson is a leading voice on issues of white collar crime and corporate misconduct. She brings a deep, diverse background to business law, bridging both business and law school. She has an active scholarly and public profile with appearances on venues such as the TODAY Show and NBC News Now.

Nelson’s work explores the intersection of corporate law, white collar crime, and compliance. She concentrates on the way that legal rules shape ethical behavior within business organizations and the impact of different frameworks on large-scale corporate wrongdoing.

Her scholarship has been published in both legal and business journals, including the Harvard Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Cardozo Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, Berkeley Business Law Journal, Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Legal Studies in Business, and the Academy of Management Learning and Education journal. Her chapters are in academic books published by the Oxford University Press, the Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and Edward Elgar. She has received numerous awards for her work from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, including its 2017 Distinguished Proceedings Paper and Holmes-Cardozo awards, the 2016 Ralph Bunche Prize for Outstanding International Paper, and its 2015 Outstanding Proceedings award. In 2022, she again won the Ralph Bunche Outstanding International Paper Award.

Her recent book, co-authored with the late Lynn Stout, and published by the Oxford University Press, is Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know. The book has been called a “modern classic,” and it is available in a wide variety of formats. Her next book is on workplace surveillance.

Nelson is additionally an organizer in academia and active in outreach to the business community. She is one of the conveners of the ComplianceNet international network of scholars, serves as an officer for the Ethics Section of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, and helps organize the Corporate and Securities Law Collaborative Research Network for Law & Society. She speaks about her work to counsel for corporations ranging from Caterpillar to Walmart, Boeing, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and others.

Nelson was previously a tenured Professor of Law at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, where she also held a courtesy appointment in the Management & Operations Department of Villanova Business School. Over 2021-23, she visited Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, where she was part of the team teaching the required curriculum for approximately 1,100 students in HBS’s MBA class. Before teaching in law school, she was in business schools for about ten years. Before academia, she worked for the federal courts, served as a deputy district attorney, and was a business litigator in Denver, Colorado. Nelson is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she was the Supreme Court Co-Chair of the Harvard Law Review, and Yale University, where she was awarded her degree with honors and distinction in the major.

Education & Training

JD, Harvard Law School
BA, Yale University

Recent Publications

Books

Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know, co-authorship with Lynn A. Stout, Oxford U. Press (2022)
- Nominated before publication for Next Big Idea Club Winter 2021-22 (curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink)

Scholarly Articles

Corporate Criminal ESG, Iowa L. Rev. (forthcoming).
- Winner: Ralph Bunche Outstanding Int’l Paper Award for project, 2022 Acad. of Legal Stud. in Bus
- Highlighted in Columbia L. Sch.’s Blue Sky, NYU L. Sch.’s Compliance and Enforcement, and Duke L. Sch.’s Global Markets blogs
Cryptocommunity Currencies, 105 Cornell L. Rev. 3, 101 (2020).
- Highlighted in Columbia L. Sch.'s Blue Sky, Duke L. Sch.'s Global Markets, and Harvard L. Sch.'s Just Money blogs
- Selected for “Emerging Voices in Securities Regulation,” 2020 AALS Ann. Meeting
Management Culture & Surveillance (Berle XI Symposium: Law and Corporate Culture), 43 Seattle L. Rev. 2, 631 (2020) (solicited manuscript and presentation).
- Highlighted in Columbia L. Sch.’s Blue Sky and Duke L. Sch.’s Global Markets blogs.
- Featured in its own episode of Stanford L. Sch.’s Business Scholars podcast
- Selected for “New and Emerging Voices in Workplace Law,” 2020 AALS Ann. Meeting
Disclosure-Driven Crime, 52 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 3, 1487 (2019) (formerly The Criminal Bug: Volkswagen’s Middle Management and ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Corporate Crime).
- Winner: Distinguished Proceedings Prize & Holmes-Cardozo Award, 2017 Acad. of Legal Stud. in Bus
- Highlighted in Oxford University’s Business Law and Columbia L. Sch.’s Blue Sky blogs. Re-posted by the Business Law Prof. blog
- Selected for AALS Crim. Justice Roundtable, 2017 ABA Meeting; and “Emerging Voices in Securities Regulation,” 2018 AALS Ann. Meeting
Paper Dragon Thieves, 105 Geo. L.J. 4, 871 (2017).
- Winner: Best Paper Award, 2016 Western Acad. of Legal Stud. in Bus.; and Ralph Bunche Outstanding Int’l Paper Award, 2016 Acad. of Legal Stud. in Bus.
- Basis of Doctoral Dissertation applying ideas to Scandinavia and the European Union, “Monsoon Paper Dragons,” Shruti Kashyap, Uppsala U., Sweden, 2020.
The Corporate Conspiracy Vacuum, 37 Cardozo L. Rev. 1, 249 (2015) (special request for second article after publication of first in series).
- Winner: Outstanding Proceedings Award, 2015 Acad. of Legal Stud. in Bus.; Outstanding Paper, 2014 Pac. Sw. Acad. of Legal Stud. in Bus.;
- translation into Chinese and publication for the Chinese market.
The Intracorporate Conspiracy Trap, 36 Cardozo L. Rev. 3, 969 (2015).
- Winner: Best Paper Award, 2014 Western Acad. of Legal Stud. in Bus.
Protecting Employee Rights and Prosecuting Corporate Crimes: A Proposal for Criminal Cumis Counsel (with Richard O. Parry), 10 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 1, 115 (2013).
- Winner: Distinguished Proceedings Paper, 2013 Acad. of Legal Stud. in Bus.
Note: Federal Courts—Proposed Changes to the Ninth Circuit and the Federal Courts of Appeals—Final Report of the Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals; and S. 253, the Ninth Circuit Reorganization Act, 113 Harv. L. Rev. 3, 822 (2000).

Select Management and Translation Pieces

Fiduciary Duties Law for Managers: An Overview, Harv. Bus. Publ’g, HBS # 322-073, Nov. 2021 (with Trevor Fetter). Mandatory reading for Harvard Business School MBA students, and resold as curriculum for business schools around the world.
Sexual Misconduct in the Workplace: Considerations for Managers, Harv. Bus. Publ’g, HBS # 322-085, Jan. 2022 (with Trevor Fetter). Worldwide impact same as the above.
Business Ethics: What the Corporate Law Bench and Bar Need to Know (Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law), 47 Del J. Corp. L. 1, ___ (forthcoming)
Foreword to 2021 Norman J. Shachoy Symposium: Practical Ethics in Corporate Law: The Science, Instruction and “Real-World” Application, 66 Vill. L. Rev. 875 (2022)
Behavioral Ethics: The Science, Practical Ethics in Corporate Law: The Science, Instruction and “Real-World” Application (2021 Norman J. Shachoy Symp.), 66 Vill. L. Rev. 889 (2022) (moderator with panelists Niki den Nieuwenboer, Ann Tenbrunsel, and Linda K. Treviño)
Lessons Learned from Research, Practical Ethics in Corporate Law: The Science, Instruction and “Real-World” Application (2021 Norman J. Shachoy Symp.), 66 Vill. L. Rev. 901 (2022) (moderator with panelists Niki den Nieuwenboer, Ann Tenbrunsel, and Linda K. Treviño)
Workplace Surveillance, in Ethical Systems (ed. with Brian Harward, reference work for researchers and the public, 2020 onwards)
A Path to Developing More Insightful Business School Graduates: A Systems-Based, Experiential Approach to Integrating Law, Strategy, and Sustainability (with Constance E. Bagley, Adam J. Sulkowski, Sandra A. Waddock, & Paul Shrivastava), Acad. of Mgmt. Learning and Educ. (AMLE), 2019 (peer-reviewed business-school “A”-level management journal). Online first Nov. 2019; selected for print edition Vol. 19, No. 4; print released Dec. 1, 2020; online print edition released Dec. 23, 2020.
The Corruption Norm, 26 J. of Mgmt. Inquiry 3, 280 (Nov. 2016) (special issue on corruption, management and organizations) (double-blind peer-reviewed journal of the Western Acad. of Mgmt.; submitted by special invitation).
When Criminal Prosecution of a Business and its Employees Creates a Conflict of Interest: Does Independent Counsel Address the Conflict? (with Richard O. Parry), 20 J. of Legal Stud. in Bus. (2015-16) (peer-reviewed specialty journal within the Acad. of Legal Stud. in Bus.).

Book Chapters

Corporate Governance as a Source of Competitive Advantage, Law & Management (Antoine Mason, et al., eds., forthcoming)
A Critique of Corporate Criminal Liability in the U.S, in Contemporary Economic Crimes (Michala Meiselles, et al., eds., Routledge Publ’g, forthcoming)
The Future of the Company and Its Liabilities: Watching the ESG Space, in The Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Corporate Liability (Martin Petrin & Christian Witting, eds., Edward Elgar Publ’g, 2023). Highlighted in Columbia L. Sch.'s Blue Sky, Duke L. Sch.'s Global Markets, and NYU L. Sch.'s Compliance and Enforcement blogs
Compliance as Management (“The Dark Side of Compliance”), in Cambridge Handbook of Compliance (D. Daniel Sokol & Benjamin van Rooij, eds., Cambridge U. Press, 2021). Featured in law-partner response to chapter: Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Does Compliance Have a Dark Side?, Conflict of Interest Blog, Dec. 27, 2019. Keynote to IAE Bus. Sch., Buenos Aires, Argentina, The Dark Side of Compliance, July 2020 (over virtual platform during the coronavirus outbreak)
Bringing Ethics Back to Friedman’s Call to Purpose for the Next 50 Years, in Milton Friedman 50 Years Later, a Reevaluation (Luigi Zingales, Jana Kasperkevic, & Asher Schechter, eds., ProMarket, Stigler Ctr. for the Study of the Econ. and the State, U. Chi., Booth Sch. of Bus., 2020)

Select Recent Additional Publications

How is Corporate Governance a Competitive Advantage?, Colum. L. Sch. Blue Sky Blog, Apr. 20, 2023; republished in the Oxford Bus. L. Blog, May 2, 2023.
The Growth in Business Support for Regulation, UPenn Carey Sch. of L. The Regul. Rev., Apr. 19, 2023.
De-Facto Financial Regulation in the Form of Corporate Criminal Liability for ESG is Coming, The FinReg Blog: Commentary by Faculty and Affiliates of the Duke L. Global Fin. Mkts Ctr. [hereinafter Duke L. Global Mkts], June 23, 2022.
Corporate Criminal Liability for ESG Initiatives Is on Its Way, Colum. L. Sch. Blue Sky Blog, June 22, 2022.
Coming Corporate Criminal Liability for ESG Initiatives, NYU Law Compliance and Enforcement, June 2, 2022.
The Management Case for Inclusionary Corporate Purpose, Colum. L. Sch. Blue Sky Blog, Mar. 16, 2021.
Bringing Business Ethics Back to Friedman’s Call to Purpose, The Customer, Oct. 8, 2020.
Bringing Ethics Back to Friedman’s Call to Purpose for the Next 50 Years, U. Chi. ProMarket Blog, Oct. 7, 2020; distributed in the Aspen Institute’s Ideas Worth Teaching newsl., Oct. 8, 2020; selected to be book chapter in Milton Friedman 50 Years Later, A Reevaluation (Luigi Zingales, Jana Kasperkevic, & Asher Schechter, eds., ProMarket, Stigler Ctr. for the Study of the Econ. and the State, U. Chi., Booth Sch. of Bus., 2020).
Straight Talk About the Business Ethics of Workplace Surveillance, Ethical Sys. Blog, June 21, 2020; introduction and video published in the Ethical Sys. Newsl., July 7, 2020.
Opinion: 5 Ethical Challenges Employers Will Face as They Reopen, HR Deep Dive, June 17, 2020; selected for Bus. Ethics Highlights, June 19, 2020.
5 Ethical Challenges During COVID-19 That Businesses Need to Meet, N.Y.U. Ethical Sys. Newsl., June 3, 2020.
The Case for Cryptocurrencies as a New Category of Regulated Non-Sovereign Fiat Currency, Harv. L. Sch. Just Money Blog, Mar. 31, 2020.
Why Cryptocurrencies Should Be Evaluated as Fiat Money, Colum. L. Sch. Blue Sky Blog, Feb. 27, 2020.
How Cryptocurrencies Should Be Regulated as Non-Sovereign Fiat Currencies, Duke L. Global Mkts, Feb. 18, 2020.
A Warning About the Combination of Management Culture & Surveillance, Duke L. Global Mkts, Feb. 3, 2020.
The Potentially Toxic Combination of Management Culture and Modern Surveillance, Colum. L. Sch. Blue Sky Blog, Jan. 29, 2020.

Select Recent Academic Presentations and Conferences

Regaining Worker Autonomy, ComplianceNet2023, Wash. D.C., June 2023
Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know, Author Meets Readers, L. & Soc’y Conf., San Juan, PR, June 2023
New Business Ethics Resource & Workplace Surveillance, Lab. & Emp. L. Council, The Conf. Board, on-line meeting, May 2023
Compliance and Ethics Takeaways, Caterpillar Corp. Int’l, online, May 2023
Behavioral Ethics Developments and Resources for Ethics Professionals, Ass’n for Practical and Professional Ethics, 32nd Ann. Int’l Conf., online, March 2023
Corporate Criminal ESG, Conf. on Standardized Corp. Soc. Responsibility Reporting, U. of Fla. Levin Coll. of L., Gainesville, FL, Feb. 2023
Structuring Enforcement to Deter Misconduct and Induce Disclosure, Program on Corp. Compliance and Enforcement, NYU Sch. of L., New York, NY, Nov. 2022
Berkeley Forum for Corporate Governance, Berkeley Ctr. for L. and Bus., Berkeley L., San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2022
Business Ethics for Corporate Governance Panel, Soc’y for Corp. Govern. NYC Conf., NY, NY, Oct. 2022
Corporate Criminal ESG, Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, McDonough Sch. of Bus., Geo. U., Wash., D.C., Oct. 2022
Corporate Criminal ESG, guest lecture to Regul. L. & Pol’y class, U. Penn. Carey Sch. of L., U. Penn., Phila., PA, Nov. 2022
Keynote Address, EM Normandie Business School, France, and SCMHRD Bus. Sch., India, joint international conference on compliance, online, Sept. 2022
Corporate Criminal ESG, Ninth Annual Corporate & Securities Litigation Workshop, U. of Ill., Chicago, IL, Sept. 2022
Scholarly Papers: Fraud and Corruption Panel, Soc’y for Bus. Ethics, Seattle, WA, Aug. 2022 (chair)
Legal Interpretation and Ambiguity Panel, ComplianceNet2022, The Ctr. for L. and Behavior, Dep’t of Jur., U. Amsterdam Sch. of L., Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 2022 (chair)
New Books About Compliance Panel, ComplianceNet2022, The Ctr. for L. and Behavior, Dep’t of Jur., U. Amsterdam Sch. of L., Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 2022
Corporate Criminal ESG, Acad. of Legal Stud. in Bus., Louisville, KY, July 2022 (Ralph Bunche Finalist Session and repeated for Holmes-Cardozo Finalist Session)
Revisiting Ethics and Corporate Culture, Seattle U. Albers Ethics Week, Seattle, WA, May 2022
Building an Ethical Career, Bridge MBA Class, Albers Ethics Week, Seattle, WA, May 2022
Ethics, Culture, and the Dark Side of Compliance, Northwest Ethics Network, Seattle, WA, May 2022
Roundtable on Civic Responsibility, Ira M. Millstein Ctr. for Global Mkts and Corp. Ownership, Colum. L. Sch., New York, NY, April 2022
Vanderbilt Law and Business, 24th Annual Law & Business Conference, Vanderbilt L. Sch., Nashville, TN, Mar. 2022

Select Recent Media Engagement

Criminals are Using AI in Terrifying Ways — And It’s Only Going to Get Worse, N.Y. Post, May 10, 2023 (quoted use of artificial intelligence technology).
How Companies are Surveilling WFH Employees with ‘Tattleware,’ The TODAY Show, Mar. 28, 2023 (show watched by over three million viewers) (return appearance; interviewed on surveillance software in the workplace).
Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know, Stigler Cntr. for the Study of the Econ. and the State, The U. of Chicago, Booth Sch. of Bus., Mar. 6, 2023 (presentation for students, faculty, alumni, and others; archived with Center for the public).
I Can Read Your Mind, Briefings Mag., Korn Ferry Int’l, Feb./Mar. 2023 (circulation of over a quarter of a million C-suite executives around the world) (quoted on workplace surveillance reading emotions).
You Shouldn’t Be a Jerk to Get Ahead, Harvard Law Today, Feb. 6, 2023 (interview on the destructiveness of unethical business behavior, and the positive impacts of business ethics); republished in the Harv. U. Gazette.
The New Face of Fraud—Marquee Education and Privileged Access, Forbes, Feb. 6, 2023 (quoted on privilege and fraud).
Yes, Your Boss Can Ban You from Using TikTok on a Work Device, Governing Mag., Feb. 2, 2023 (quoted on private employers and TikTok).
Can Your Boss Ban You from Using TikTok? Yes, But Here’s What You Should Know, Charlotte Observer, Feb. 1, 2023 (reprint).
Can Your Boss Block You from Using TikTok? Yes, But Here’s What You Should Know, Miami Herald, Feb. 1, 2023 (quoted on constitutionality of bans by private employers, and highlighting data-privacy issues).
Why a Government TikTok Ban Won't be Coming to Your Phone Anytime Soon, Yahoo!Finance, Jan. 20, 2023 (discussing employment and data privacy).
Managing for Savvy Business Ethics, Ethico, Jan. 12, 2023 (engagement with compliance officers and compliance personnel on program design for business ethics).
Off the Shelf: Recent Books with Harvard Connections, Harvard Mag., Jan-Feb. 2023 (highlighting business ethics book, and concluding that it was one that managers “ought to have on hand”).
The Terrifying Ways Employers Can Spy on Your Search History, N.Y. Post, Dec. 20, 2022 (quoted on data collection and employers).
Eyes on You: Tracking Remote Workers, Briefings Mag., Korn Ferry Int’l, Oct/Nov. 2022 (circulation of over a quarter of a million C-suite executives around the world) (quoted on the human implications of workplace surveillance).
Book Review: Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know, Directors & Boards Mag., Third Quarter 2022 (circulation of over a quarter of a million [258,744 in 2022] public and private company directors, private company owners and shareholders and governance professionals) (cited on the reach and implications of business ethics).
Here's How Not to Get Fired When You're Working from Home, The Root: Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude, Oct. 21, 2022 (building on my Today Show interview).
Unions Monitoring Rise of Worker Productivity Tracking, LAW360, Sept. 8, 2022 (quoted on workplace surveillance implications for union activity).
Forget ‘Quiet Quitting’: Employers are Doing ‘Shocking’ Things to Monitor Your Productivity, N.Y. Post, Aug. 26, 2022 (interviewed on forms of workplace surveillance; website version accessed over 350,000 times by Dec. 2022).
Workplace Surveillance: How Your Boss is Spying on You, Radio Times, WHYY (PBS/NPR), Aug. 24, 2022 (interviewed on business ethics issues in workplace surveillance).
LinkedIn Live with David Meltzer, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and additional streams, Office Hours #370, July 13, 2022 (interviewed on practical business ethics and strategy).
J.S. Nelson, Business Ethics as a Competitive Advantage, Strategy Skills Podcast, Episode 256, July 4, 2022 (interviewed on applying business ethics; top-5 podcast worldwide for careers, and No.1 in countries like India and Singapore (450 episodes and 4.2 million downloads)).
Watch For These 4 ‘Red Flags’ During the Job Interview, Warns Harvard Business Expert: ‘You Don’t Want to Work There,’ Make It, CNBC, June 29, 2022 (accessible op-ed advice piece on assessing company culture).
Tech Workers Would Rather Quit Than Work for Big Brother Bosses, IT Brew, MorningBrew, June 15, 2022 (interviewed on new workplace surveillance findings).
Professor J.S. Nelson on What Everyone Needs to Know About Business Ethics, Human Risk Podcast, Summer 2022.
Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know, Berkeley Boost, U. of Calif. at Berkeley Law, June 14, 2022 (executive legal education program offering CLE ethics credit to practicing lawyers).
Corporate Crime and the Ethical Slide, Corp. Crime Reporter (in print and on-line), June 14, 2022 (interviewed about book, white collar crime, and corporate ethics programs).
Is "Business Ethics" an Oxymoron?, Everyday MBA Podcast, June 11, 2022 (program has over a million downloads; interviewed on ethical entrepreneurial and business success techniques and tips).
Faculty and Alumni Books, Harv. Bus. Sch. Bulletin, June 1, 2022.
J.S. Nelson, The Ethics Expert, May 23, 2022 (podcast with Nick Gallo that led to future collaborations and book give-away).
Real Leaders: J.S. Nelson: Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know, Real Leaders, May 5, 2022 (discussion of book with importance of mindfulness in business ethics).
J.S. Nelson | Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know, Build Your Network, 753, May 2, 2022 (podcast listed in Forbes as among the 10 Podcasts to Change Your Life).
Professor J.S. Nelson Delivers 36th Annual Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Corporate Law, Del. J. Corp. L. online, Apr. 28, 2022.
Professor J.S. Nelson Led Members of the DSBA through the 36th Annual Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture, Del. J. of Corp. L. on Instagram, Apr. 25, 2022.
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray, Working Knowledge: Business Research for Business Leaders, Harv. Bus. Sch., Apr. 17, 2022 (article by Lane Lambert about book, its takeaways, and impact).
Social Impact Authors: How & Why Harvard Business School’s J.S. Nelson Is Helping To Change Our World, Authority Mag., Mar. 24, 2022 (interview).
‘Tattleware’: How Your Boss Might Be Tracking Your Remote Activity, The TODAY Show and rebroadcast on NBC News Now, Feb. 23, 2022 (TODAY Show watched by over three million viewers) (interviewed on surveillance software and employee relations).
Book Bites, The Next Big Idea Club (curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Daniel Pink, and Adam Grant), Winter 2022 Nominee (relating the top five things that people can take away from my business ethics book).
Students, Faculty Reflect on 100 Years of Harvard Business School’s Case Method, Harv. Crimson, Dec. 13, 2021 (quoted on the value of the case method in teaching to prepare students for the future).
Conduct Tech May Fail to Deliver Insights, While Increasing Data Privacy Risk, Ethical Issues, Thomson Reuters: Regulatory Intelligence, Oct. 29, 2021 (quoted on the impact of surveillance on women, minorities, and star performers in the workforce); republished in JDSupra, Nov. 3, 2021.
EU Rules Governing Artificial Intelligence Will Put Compliance Obligations on Facial Recognition Regtech, Thomson Reuters: Regulatory Intelligence, Oct. 8, 2021 (quoted on surveillance systems); republished in JDSupra, Oct. 13, 2021.
Required Reading: 13 Books MBA Professors at Harvard, Kellogg, and Elsewhere are Telling Students to Read This Year, Bus. Insider, Sept. 21, 2021 (quoted on books helpful for students).
Compliance in Short, Incentive Systems, Part 1 (reference video), Governance and Transparency Ctr., IAE Bus. Sch., Buenos Aires, Argentina, April-May 2021.
Compliance in Short, Incentive Systems, Part 2 (reference video), Governance and Transparency Ctr., IAE Bus. Sch., Buenos Aires, Argentina, April-May 2021.
Women’s Financial Well-Being, CWSL Webcast, Mar. 31, 2021 (moderator with panelists Meredith L. Carter, Elizabeth Capana, and Kaylan Sliney; co-sponsored by the Women’s Law Caucus, the Villanova Parents and Non-traditional Students Group, the Health Law Society, and the Corporate Law Society).
Analysis: Firms’ Surveillance Use Risks Squashing Positive Compliance Behavior, Culture Change Gains, Thomson Reuters: Regulatory Intelligence, Mar. 18, 2021 (quoted on reasons for the rising use of surveillance software).
A Path to Developing More Insightful Business School Graduates (video introduction), 19 Acad. of Mgmt. Learning and Ed. 4, Jan. 6, 2021.
Microsoft Patents New Software That Can Detect When Employees are Lazy, N.Y. Post, Dec. 3, 2020, (quoted on workplace surveillance software).
Microsoft’s New ‘Productivity Score’ Lets Your Boss Monitor How Often You Use Email and Attend Video Meetings, Forbes, Nov. 25, 2020 (quoted on implications of workplace surveillance in Microsoft365 office product). Follow-up story soon afterwards: Microsoft Makes Changes to Productivity Score Tool After Privacy Backlash, Forbes, Dec. 1, 2020.
Better Compliance Through Less Surveillance: No Excuses for Poor Management, Broadcast Keynote Address & Panel Interaction with business leaders, anti-corruption and ethics experts, lawyers, compliance- and risk-practitioners, civil society representatives and academics, Co-sponsored by IESE Ctr. for Bus. in Soc’y, U. Navarra, Barcelona, Spain, Governance and Transparency Ctr., IAE Bus. Sch., Buenos Aires, Argentina, and The Crim. L. Dep’t, Austral U. L. Sch., Oct. 22, 2020 (over virtual platform during the coronavirus outbreak).
This Tech Could Let Bosses Spy on You While You’re Working from Home, Deseret News, July 28, 2020 (quoted on surveillance software).
Hindsight Is 20/20: Living Your Culture in The Next Normal, WorkItDaily, July 10, 2020 (quoted on ethics in managerial decisions).
The Dark Side of Compliance, Broadcast Keynote Address & Panel Interaction with International Compliance Officers, Governance and Transparency Ctr., IAE Bus. Sch., Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2, 2020 (over virtual platform during the coronavirus outbreak).
Ethical Challenges for Reopening, Bus. Ethics Highlights, June 19, 2020 (citing my work for how ethical concerns become particularly important during the pandemic).
Professor J S Nelson on Surveillance, Human Risk Podcast (Episode 46), June 4, 2020.
Professor J.S. Nelson, Breaking the Fever Podcast (Episode 10), June 3, 2020.
Josephine Nelson, Breaking the Fever (Webcast Call-in), June 2, 2020.
Josephine Nelson on Workplace Surveillance, Stan. L. Sch. Bus. Scholars Podcast, Mar. 30, 2020 (episode interview).

Research Interests

Corporate Law
Corporate & White Collar Crime
Business Ethics and Compliance