The Hayek Lecture Series is sponsored by the Center for the History of Political Economy and Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE), an interdisciplinary certificate program at Duke University.
John Hasnas is a professor of business at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, a professor of law (by courtesy) at Georgetown Law and the executive director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Lafayette College, his J.D. and Ph.D. in Legal Philosophy from Duke University, and his LL.M. in Legal Education from Temple Law School. His scholarship concerns ethics and white collar crime, jurisprudence, and legal history.
Professor Hasnas presents a challenge to the conventional public policy analysis. The conventional approach sees government regulation as the correction for the excesses of the free market. Hasnas argues that this is a false dilemma–that the choice is not between unregulated markets and government regulation because the common law serves as a regulatory device that is built into the market.
