GWENDOLYN GORDON Phone: 646-342-0941 gwgordon@wharton.upenn.edu
APPOINTMENTS The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics 07/2014 – Present
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Lecturer, Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics 07/2013 – 07/2014
EDUCATION Princeton University, PhD January 2014
Dissertation: Bones, Breath, Body: Regulation and Responsibility in the Life of an Indigenously Owned Corporation
Harvard Law School, JD June 2006
Third-Year Paper: Tide is High: Culture, Self Determination, and Indigenous Rights to Sea
Cornell University, BA Psychology May 2002
EXPERIENCE Princeton University, Graduate Student 09/2007 - 01/2014 Shearman and Sterling LLP, Law Clerk 10/2006 - 09/2007 Shearman and Sterling LLP, Summer Associate 06/2005 - 08/2005 UN Tribunal For Rwanda, Legal Intern 06/2004 - 08/2004
Professor Lani Guinier, Research Assistant 11/2003 - 05/2004 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Law and Society Association; American Bar Association; New York State Bar; American Ethnological Society; Academy of Legal Studies in Business; American Anthropological Association
PUBLICATIONS Ethical Bankers (forthcoming 2016, Journal of Corporate Law) (with David Zaring).
Who Speaks the Culture of the Corporation? (forthcoming 2016, Michigan Business and Entrepreneurial Law Review)
Culture in Corporate Law. 39 Seattle U. L. Rev. 353, January 2016 History and the Anthropology of Firms: A Legal Perspective. Journal of Business Anthropology, May 2014 (with Eric Orts)
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Corporate House Arrest Corporate Contagion
The Court and the Kids: Narrative, Image, and the Making of the Corporate Self
Bones, Breath, Body: The Life of an Indigenously Owned Corporation (book project)
PRESENTATIONS
Invited Presentations
Who Speaks the Culture of the Corporation? 2016 Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop, UCLA Law School Who Speaks the Culture of the Corporation? 2015 7th Annual Berle Symposium: The Nature of the Modern Corporation Who Speaks the Culture of the Corporation? 2015 University of Connecticut
Culture in Corporate Law, Or: A Black Corporation, a Christian Corporation, and a Maori Corporation Walk Into a Bar…
University of Michigan 2015
Roundtable: Are Corporations Bad? Anthropology of Corporations Interest Group Opening Dialogue
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2013
Conference Presentations
Panel, Re-Discovering Law: Intersections of Communities, States, and Beyond American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2016 Corporate Contagion American Anthropological Association Annual
Meeting 2015
Ethical Bankers Ethical Banking Workshop 2015 Who Speaks the Culture of the Corporation? Academy of Legal Studies in
Business Annual Meeting 2015
Culture in Corporate Law, Or: A Black Corporation, a Christian Corporation, and a Maori Corporation Walk Into a Bar…
Carol & Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research Hobby
Lobby Workshop 2014
Corporate Subject, American Anthropological Association Annual
Meeting 2014
Maori Acumen: Talking Business and Talking Culture in An Indigenously Owned Corporation, Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual
Meeting 2014
Corporation Personhood: For and Against, Society for Business Ethics
Annual Meeting 2014
Narrative, Image, and the Making of the Corporate Self, Harvard Institute for Global Law and Policy Conference: Corporate Power in Global
Society 2014
The Indigenous Ethos and the Spirit of Corporatization: The Social Imbrication of the “Maori Incorporation,” Law and Society Association
Annual Meeting 2014
The Courts and the Kids: Narrative and Techniques of the Self in an Indigenously Owned Corporation, Law and Society Association Annual
Meeting 2013
An Indigenous Terroir: Land, Regulation, and Social Responsibility in an Indigenously-Owned Company, American Anthropological Association
Annual Meeting 2012
One Thousand Years: Resources, Regulation, and Strategic Planning in an Indigenous Corporation, International Conference on Law and Society/ Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2012 One Thousand Years: The Pasts and Futures of an Indigenous
Corporation, American Ethnological Society Spring Conference 2012
Organizer Corporations and Markets
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2016 The Corporatization of the Culture Concept
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2016 Hobby Lobby Workshop Carol & Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business
Ethics Research (co-organizer) 2014
Roundtable: The Corporation Otherwise
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2014 HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
Organizer, American Anthropological Association Corporations Interest
Chair, Wharton Social Impact Concentration 2015-present Co-chair, Wharton Social Impact Concentration 2014-2015 Reviewer, American Ethnologist
Wharton Dean’s Research Fund 2014 - 2015 Grant supporting preliminary research.
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies 2012 - 2013 Fellowship supporting the write-up of my doctoral research.
Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University 2007 - 2014 Graduate Associate in community of legal scholars at Princeton.
University President’s Fellowship, Princeton University 2007 - 2012 Fellowship funding the first five years of my doctoral work.
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies 2009 Grant funding my preliminary research in New Zealand during the
summer of 2009.
Development Grand Challenges Initiative Grant 2008 Grant that allowed me to explore issues of culture, land use, and property law in relation to the Ga tribal group, mapping out flows and disjunctures of “traditional” and “modern” land regimes in Ghana.
Harvard Black Law Students Association 2003 - 2006 Member of group that works to support minority law students.
Harvard Law School Advocates for Human Rights 2003 - 2006 Undertook pro bono human rights advocacy projects that included:
helping to analyze and summarize evidence for the testimony of an expert witness to the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda,
researching and writing a brief to the European Court of Human Rights regarding the forced sterilization of Roma women in Bulgaria, and
researching and writing a report on racial profiling in the United Kingdom. Chayes Public Interest Fellowship, Harvard Law School 2004 Summer fellowship awarded to students undertaking human-rights projects addressing legal, political, and social needs in post-conflict societies.
Reginald Lewis International Fellowship, Harvard Law School 2004 Grant supporting students in undertaking short-term international human rights work.
Harvard Black Law Students Association Africa Summit 2004 Harvard International Law Journal, Staff 2003 - 2004 Harvard Human Rights Journal, Staff 2003 - 2004 TEACHING Social Impact and Social Responsibility (undergraduate) 2016 - present
Social Impact and Social Responsibility (MBA) 2015 - present Introduction to Law and Legal Processes (honors) 2015 - present Introduction to Law and Legal Processes 2015 - present Introduction to Law and Legal Processes 2014 Assistant in Instruction, History of Anthropological Theory 2011 Assistant in Instruction, Introduction to Anthropology 2011 Assistant in Instruction, Introduction to Anthropology 2009
