Faculty Publications

2024

Robert Bird and Evans, J. (2024), “What is the Impact of Legal Strategy?” American Business Law Journal, 61(2), 113-133. Download Now

Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Stefan Hock, and Walliser, B. (2024), “Disclosure Effects in Influencer Marketing: Implications for Courts, Regulators and Marketers,” Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business, 44(2), 207 -247. Download Now

Hurmerinta-Haanpää, A. and Gerlinde Berger-Walliser (forthcoming), “Joint Value Creation: A Functional, Proactive Approach to Contract Governance,” American Business Law Journal.

Rachel Chambers and Birchall D. (2024), “How European Human Rights Law Will Reshape U.S. Business,” 20 UC Law Business Journal, 3-58. Download Now

Stephen Park (2024), “Untangling the Extraterritoriality of ESG Regulation,” North Carolina Journal of International Law, 49(4), 399–420. Download Now

Stephen Park (forthcoming), “Human Rights Due Diligence at the Intersection of Corporate Compliance and Corporate Purpose,” Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial and Commercial Law.

Stephen Park and Samples, T.R (forthcoming), “The Sovereign Climate Debt Trap and Natural Disaster Clauses,” American Business Law Journal.

2023

Madden, T. and Gerlinde Berger-Walliser (2023), “Making Sense of ESG with the SEC, 25 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, 927 – 979. Download Now

Robert Bird and Magid, J. (2023), “Operational Risk and the New Caremark Liability for Boards of Directors,” Boston University Law Review, 103(6), 1539-1590.  Download Now

Rachel Chambers (2023), "Litigating Corporate Human Rights Information," American Business Law Journal, 60 (1), 111-174. Download Now

Martin J. and Rachel Chambers (2023), "The SEC as Human Rights Enforcer," 18 Virginia Business Law Review, 93-147. Download Now

Stephen Park and Bishara, N.D., (2023), “Climate Change and a Just Transition to the Future of Work,” American Business Law Journal, 60(4), 701–748. Download Now

2022

Hiller, J.S., Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, and Brantly, A.F. (2022), “Critical Protection for the Network of Persons,” 25 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, 115. Download Now

Robert Bird  (2022), “Contractual Deterrence and the Ethical Supply Chain,” Boston College Law Review, 63(8), 2539-2620. Download Now

Rachel Chambers and Martin, J. (2022), "Reimagining Corporate Accountability: Moving Beyond Human Rights Due Diligence," New York University Journal of Law and Business, 18(3), 773-843. Download Now

Cahoy, D.R., Stephen Park, and Scott, I. (2022), "The Changing Faces of Business Law and Sustainability," American Business Law Journal, 59(4), 613–620. Download Now

2021

Robert Bird and Schuster M. (2021), “Legal Strategy During Legal Uncertainty: The Case of Cannabis Regulation,” Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, 26 (2), 362-412. Download Now

Robert Bird (2021), “Anti-GMO and Vaccine-Autism Public Policy Campaigns in the Court of Public Opinion,” Hastings Law Journal, 72 (1), 719-772. Download Now

Robert Bird (2021), “Caremark Compliance for the Next Twenty-Five Years,” American Business Law Journal, 58 (1), 63-119. Download Now

Robert Bird (2021), “Vaccinating Legal Scholarship from Distorted Science: Evidence from the Anti-GMO Movement,” UMKC Law Review, 90 (1), 1-35 Download Now

Robert Bird and Magid, J.M. (2021), “Toward a Systems Architecture in Corporate Governance,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, 24 (1), 84-143. Download Now

Rachel Chambers and Gerlinde Berger-Walliser (2021), “The Future of International Corporate Human Rights Litigation: A Transatlantic Comparison,” American Business Law Journal, 58 (3) 579-642. Download Now

Rachel Chambers (2021), “Parent Company Direct Liability for Overseas Human Rights Violations: Lessons from the U.K. Supreme Court,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, 42 (3) 519-579. Download Now

Rachel Chambers, Ewing, A., and Roggensack, M. (2021), “Teaching Business and Human Rights During the Pandemic,” Business and Human Rights Journal, 6 (1), 135-140. Download Now

Stephen Park (2021), “Legal Strategy Disrupted: Managing Climate Change and Regulatory Transformation,” 58 American Business Law Journal, 58 (4), 711-749. Download Now

Stephen Park, & Samples, T. R (2021), “Distrust, Disorder, and the New Governance of Sovereign Debt,” Harvard International Law Journal, 62 (1), 175-221. Download Now

2020

Robert Bird and Soundararajan, V. (2020), “From Suspicion to Sustainability in Global Supply Chains,” Texas A&M Law Review, 2 (7), 383-418. Download Now

Robert Bird and Soundararajan, V. (2020), “The Role of Precontractual Signals in Creating Sustainable Global Supply Chains,” Journal of Business Ethics, 164 (1), 81-94. Download Now

Robert Bird and Kirschner, C. (2020), “Special Report: The Summit on the Academic Profession of Business Law,” Journal of Legal Studies Education, 37 (1), 87-109. Download Now

Bradlow, D. and Stephen Park (2020), “A Global Leviathan Emerges: The Federal Reserve, COVID-19, and International Law,” American Journal of International Law, 114 (4) , 657–665. Download Now

2019

Berger-Walliser, Gerlinde, (2019), “Reforming International Human Rights Litigation against Corporate Defendants after Jesner v. Arab Bank,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, 21 (4), 757-806. Download Now

Stephen Park, & Ho, V. H. (2019), “ESG Disclosure in Comparative Perspective: Optimizing Private Ordering in Public Reporting,” 41 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, 41 (2) 249-328. Download Now

Stephen Park (2019), “Social Responsibility Regulation and Its Challenges to Corporate Compliance,” Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial and Commercial Law, 14 (1), 39-52. Download Now

2018

Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Scott, I. (2018), “Redefining Corporate Social Responsibility in an Era of Globalization and Regulatory Hardening,” American Business Law Journal, 55 (1), 167-218. Download now

Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, (2018), “Reconciling Transnational Jurisdiction: A Comparative Approach to Personal Jurisdiction over Foreign Corporate Defendants in U.S. Courts”, 51 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 1243-1304. Download Now

Robert Bird, Brown, L. (2018), “The Right to Request as a Model for Flexible Work in the European Union,” American Business Law Journal, 55 (1), 53-115. Download now

Robert Bird, Soundararajan V. (2018), "The Role of Precontractual Signals in Creating Sustainable Global Supply Chains," Journal of Business Ethics, 164(1), 81-94. Download Now

Robert Bird (2018), “VUCA,” Virginia Law and Business Review, 12 (3), 367-426.  Download Now

Robert Bird, Stephen Park (2018), “Organic Corporate Governance,” Boston College Law Review, 59 (1), 21-69. Download Now

Stephen Park (2018), “Investors as Regulators: Green Bonds and the Governance Challenges of the Sustainable Finance Revolution,” Stanford Journal of International Law, 54 (1), 1-47. Download Now

Stephen Park (2018), “Social Bonds for Sustainable Development: A Human Rights Perspective on Impact Investing,” Business and Human Rights Journal, 3 (2), 233-255. Download Now

2017

Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Barton, T., Haapio, H. (2017), “From Visual Law to Legal Design: Images as a Collaborative and Creative Process for Legal Problem-Solving,” American Business Law Journal, 54 (2), 347-392. Download Now

Schulzke, K., Gerlinde Berger-Walliser (2017), “Toward a Unified Theory of Materiality in Securities Law,” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 56 (6), 6-70. Download now

Robert Bird, Stephen Park (2017), “Turning Corporate Compliance into Competitive Advantage,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, 19 (2), 285-339. Download Now

Stephen Park, Samples, T. (2017), “Tribunalizing Sovereign Debt: Argentina’s Experience with Investor-State Dispute Settlement,” Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 50 (4), 1033-1063. Download Now

Stephen Park, Samples, T. (2017), “Puerto Rico’s Debt Dilemma and Pathways Toward Sovereign Solvency,” American Business Law Journal, 54 (1), 9-60. Download Now

2016

Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Shrivastava, P., Sulkowski, A. (2016), “Using Proactive Legal Strategy for Corporate Environmental Sustainability,” Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law, 6 (1), 1-35. Download Now

Robert Bird, Davis-Nozemack, K. (2016), “Tax Avoidance as a Sustainability Problem,” Journal of Business Ethics, __ (_), 1-17. Download Now

Robert Bird (2016), “Precarious Work: The Need for Flextime Employment Rights and Proposals for Reform,” Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, 37 (1), 1-41. Download Now

Robert Bird, Stephen Park (2016), “The Domains of Corporate Counsel in an Era of Compliance,” American Business Law Journal, 53 (2), 203-249. Download Now

Stephen Park (2016), “Special Economic Zones and the Perpetual Pluralism of Global Trade and Labor Migration,” Georgetown Journal of International Law, 47 (4), 1379-1429. Download Now

Stephen Park, Samples, T. (2016), “Towards Sovereign Equity,” Stanford Journal of Law, Business, & Finance, 21 (2), 240-285. Download Now

2015

Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Shrivastava, P. (2015), “Beyond Compliance: Sustainable Development, Business, and Proactive Law,” Georgetown Journal of International Law, 46, 417-474. Download Now

Robert Bird, Borochin, P., Knopf, J. (2015), “The Role of the Chief Legal Officer in Corporate Governance,” Journal of Corporate Finance, 34, 1-22. Download Now

Robert Bird, Cahoy, D. (2015), “Human Rights, Technology and Food: Coordinating Access and Innovation for 2050 and Beyond,” American Business Law Journal, 52 (3), 435-500. Download Now

Robert Bird (2015), “Why Don’t More Employers Adopt Flexible Working Time?” West Virginia Law Review, 118 (1), 327-367. Download Now

Robert Bird, Knopf, J. (2015), “The Impact of Local Knowledge on Banking.” Journal of Financial Services Research, 48 (1), 1-20. Download Now

Stephen Park, Gerlinde Berger-Walliser (2015), “A Firm-Driven Approach to Global Governance and Sustainability,” American Business Law Journal, 52 (2), 255-316. Download Now

Stephen Park, Pagnattaro, M. (2015), “The Long Arm of Section 337: International Trade Law as a Business Remedy,” American Business Law Journal, 52 (4), 621-671. Download Now

2014

Robert Bird, Orozco, D. (2014), “Finding the Right Corporate Legal Strategy,” MIT Sloan Management Review, 56 (1), 81-89. Download Now

Robert Bird, Cahoy, D., Dhooge, L. (2014), “Corporate Voluntarism and Liability for Human Rights in a Post-Kiobel World,” Kentucky Law Journal, 102 (3), 601-651. Download Now

Stephen Park (2014), “Targeted Social Transparency as Global Corporate Strategy,” Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business, 35 (1), 87-137. Download Now

Stephen Park (2014), “Guarding the Guardians: The Case for Regulating State-Owned Financial Entities in Global Finance,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, 16 (1), 739-787. Download Now

2013

Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Robert Bird (2013), “The Impact of Plain Packaging Regulation on Illicit and Non-Illicit Tobacco Products in the European Union,” North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation, 38, 1015 -1059. Download Now

Schulzke, K., Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Marchini, P. L. (2013), “Lexis Nexus Complexus: Comparative Contract Law and International Accounting Collide in the IASB-FASB Revenue Recognition Exposure Draft,” Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 46, 515-580. Download Now

 Stephen Park (2013), “Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: Reviving Global Trade and Development after Doha,” Virginia Journal of International Law, 53 (2), 365-415. Download Now

2012

Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Stalling Williams, M., Walliser, B., Bender, M. (2012), “Bavarian Blondes Don’t Need a Visa: A Comparative Law Analysis of Ambush Marketing,” Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law, 21, 1-38. Download Now

Robert Bird (2012), “Enforcement of Annulled Arbitration Awards: A Company Perspective and an Evaluation of a ‘new’ New York Convention,” North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation, 37 (4), 1013-1053. Download Now

Robert Bird, Smythe, D. (2012),Social Network Analysis and the Diffusion of the Strict Liability Rule for Manufacturing Defects 1963-87,” Law and Social Inquiry, 37 (3), 565-594. Download Now

Stephen Park (2012), “Bridging the Global Governance Gap: Reforming the Law of Trade Adjustment,” Georgetown Journal of International Law, 43 (3), 797-871. Download Now

2011

Saunders, K., Gerlinde Berger-Walliser (2011), “The liability of online markets for counterfeit goods: A comparative analysis of secondary trademark infringement in the United States and Europe,” Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business, 32 (1), 37-91. Download Now

Robert Bird (2011), “Law, Strategy, and Competitive Advantage,” Connecticut Law Review, 44 (1), 61-97. Download Now

DiMatteo L., Robert Bird, Colquitt J. (2011), “Employment, Justice, and the Psychological Contract,” Oregon Law Review, 90 (2), 449-524. Download Now

Robert Bird, Brown E. (2011), “Interactive Regulation,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, 13 (4), 837-879. Download Now

2010

Robert Bird, Chaudhry, P. (2010), “Repackaging, Pharmaceuticals, and the European Union: Managing Gray Markets in an Uncertain Legal Environment,” Virginia Journal of International Law, 50 (3), 719-756. Download Now

Robert Bird (2010), “Reviving Necessity in Eminent Domain,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 33 (1), 239-281. Download Now

Robert Bird, Knopf J. (2010), “Do Disability Laws Impair Firm Performance?,” American Business Law Journal, 47 (1), 145-190. Download Now

2009

Robert Bird, Oswald, L. (2009), “Necessity as a Check on State Eminent Domain Power,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, 12 (1), 99-141. Download Now

Robert Bird (2009), “Moral Rights: Diagnosis and Rehabilitation,” American Business Law Journal, 46 (3), 407-452. Download Now

Robert Bird, Knopf, J. (2009), “Do Wrongful-Discharge Laws Impair Firm Performance?,” Journal of Law and Economics, 52 (2), 197-222. Download Now

Robert Bird (2009), “Pathways of Legal Strategy,” Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance, 14 (1), 1-41. Download Now

2008

Smythe D., Robert Bird (2008), “The Structure of American Legal Institutions and the Diffusion of Wrongful Discharge Laws, 1978-99,” Law and Society Review, 42 (4), 833-863, Download Now

Robert Bird, Cahoy D. (2008), “The Impact of Compulsory Licensing on Foreign Direct Investment: A Collective Bargaining Approach,” American Business Law Journal, 45 (2), 283-330. Download Now

2007

Robert Bird, Cahoy D. (2007), “The Emerging BRIC Economies: Lessons from Intellectual Property Negotiation and Enforcement,” Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, 5 (3), 400-425. Download Now

Robert Bird (2007), “The Impact of the Moseley Decision on Trademark Dilution Law,” Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 26 (1), 102-117. Download Now