John M. Conley

University of North Carolina School of Law

Willian Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of Law

Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road

CB #3380

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3380

United States

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Engage, Embed, and Embellish: Theory Versus Practice in the Corporate Social Responsibility Movement

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 25 Mar 2005
John M. Conley and Cynthia A. Williams
University of North Carolina School of Law and York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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anthropology, linguistics, corporate social responsibility, new governance, NGOs, corporations

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An Emerging Third Way?: The Erosion of the Anglo-American Shareholder Value Construct

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 23 Dec 2004
Cynthia A. Williams and John M. Conley
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and University of North Carolina School of Law
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Corporate law, corporate governance, comparative law, United Kingdom, convergence, stakeholders

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The Corporate Social Responsibility Movement as an Ethnographic Problem

UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1285631
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2014
John M. Conley and Cynthia A. Williams
University of North Carolina School of Law and York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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Narratives of Diversity in the Corporate Boardroom: What Corporate Insiders Say About Why Diversity Matters

UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1415803
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2014
John M. Conley, Lissa L. Broome and Kimberly D. Krawiec
University of North Carolina School of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law and University of Virginia, School of Law
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diversity, race, gender, corporations, board of directors

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Dangerous Categories: Narratives of Corporate Board Diversity

89 North Carolina Law Review 759-808 (2011)
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 20 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2014
Lissa L. Broome, John M. Conley and Kimberly D. Krawiec
University of North Carolina School of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law and University of Virginia, School of Law
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Corporate Boards, Corporate Governance, Race, Gender, Diversity

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Can You Talk Like a Lawyer and Still Think Like a Human Being?: Mertz’s the Language of Law School

Law & Social Inquiry, Vol. 34, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1473518
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 16 Sep 2009
John M. Conley
University of North Carolina School of Law
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The Danger of Difference: Tensions in Directors’ Views of Corporate Board Diversity

University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2013, No. 3, 2013
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 01 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2014
Kimberly D. Krawiec, John M. Conley and Lissa L. Broome
University of Virginia, School of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law and University of North Carolina School of Law
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boards of directors, corporate boards, diversity, race, gender, ethnography, qualitative research

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Is there an Emerging Fiduciary Duty to Consider Human Rights?

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 74, No. 1, 2005
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 16 Apr 2008
Cynthia A. Williams and John M. Conley
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and University of North Carolina School of Law
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Board of Directors, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, fiduciary duties, institutional investors, international human rights, new governance

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Stories from the Jury Room: How Jurors Use Narrative to Process Evidence

Studies in Law, Politics, & Society, Vol. 49, p. 25, 2009, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1510290
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 21 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2009
John M. Conley and Robin H. Conley
University of North Carolina School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Anthropology
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jury, jury deliberations, narrative, storytelling

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Global Banks as Global Sustainability Regulators?: The Equator Principles

Law and Policy 33:4, 542-575 (2011)
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 09 Jun 2013
John M. Conley and Cynthia A. Williams
University of North Carolina School of Law and York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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Equator Principles, banking, self-regulation, regulatory theory, corporate responsibility, corporate governance, sustainability, new governance

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Trends in the Social [Ir]Responsibility of American Multinational Corporations: Increased Power, Diminished Accountability?

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Trends in the Social [Ir]Responsibility of American Multinational Corporations: Increased Power, Diminished Accountability?

Conley, J. & Williams, C. (2013). Trends in the Social [Ir]Responsibility of American Multinational Corporations: Increased Power, Diminished Accountability? Fordham Environmental Law Review, 25(1), 46-83, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2483176, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 55/2014
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2014
Cynthia A. Williams and John M. Conley
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and University of North Carolina School of Law
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corporate governance, corporate accountability, corporate constitutional rights, international human rights, Citizens United, Kiobel, Alien Tort Statute, Alien Torts Claims Act

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Does Critical Mass Matter? Views From the Boardroom

34 Seattle University Law Review 1049-1080 (2011)
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2014
Lissa L. Broome, John M. Conley and Kimberly D. Krawiec
University of North Carolina School of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law and University of Virginia, School of Law
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board diversity, race, gender, critical mass

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The Social Reform of Banking

Conley, J. & Williams, C. (2014). The Social Reform of Banking; Journal of Corporation Law, 39(3), 101-134, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2483284, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 60/2014
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 21 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2014
Cynthia A. Williams and John M. Conley
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and University of North Carolina School of Law
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financial regulation, regulatory theory, self-regulation, co-regulation, corporate culture, banking culture, new governance, Equator Principles, organizational psychology, corporate compliance, accounting reform, social accounting, social disclosure

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Fall from Grace or Business as Usual? A Retrospective Look at Lawyers on Wall Street and Main Street

Law and Social Inquiry, Forthcoming, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-17
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 23 Jul 2005
John M. Conley and Scott Baker
University of North Carolina School of Law and Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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Tales of Diversity: What Lawyers Say About Racial Equity in Private Firms

Law and Social Inquiry, 2006, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-5
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 03 Mar 2006
John M. Conley
University of North Carolina School of Law
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Enabling Responsible Public Genomics

UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1473924
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 15 Sep 2009
John M. Conley, Daniel B. Vorhaus and Adam Doerr
University of North Carolina School of Law, Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A. and Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A.
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Genomics, Genetics, IRB, regulation, personalized medicine, DNA, bioethics

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The Discourse of DNA: What Research Subjects Say About Participating (or Not) in a Genomic Biobank

UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1554744
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 18 Feb 2010
John M. Conley, R. Jean Cadigan, Arlene Davis, Allison W. Dobson, Erin Edwards, Wendell Fortson and Robert Mitchell
University of North Carolina School of Law, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Center for Genomics and Society, University of North Carolina School of Law, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and Duke University
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Can Soft Regulation Prevent Financial Crises?: The Dutch Central Bank's Supervision of Behavior and Culture

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 14 Nov 2018
John M. Conley, Lodewijk Smeehuijzen, Cynthia A. Williams, Deborah Rupp and Deborah Rupp
University of North Carolina School of Law, VU University Amsterdam - Faculty of Law, York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - School of Labor & Employment RelationsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Psychology
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financial crisis, regulation, central banks, business culture, banking reform

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How Bad is it Out There?: Teaching and Learning About the Legal Profession

North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 82, p. 1944, 2004, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-18
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 16 Aug 2005
John M. Conley
University of North Carolina School of Law
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legal profession, professional responsibility, empirical research, teaching

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A Difficult Conversation: Corporate Directors on Race and Gender

Pace International Law Review (Forthcoming), USC CLASS Research Papers Series No. CLASS14-11, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 14-10
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 10 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2014
Kimberly D. Krawiec, John M. Conley and Lissa L. Broome
University of Virginia, School of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law and University of North Carolina School of Law
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corporate boards, board diversity, race, gender, directors, corporations

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The Next Controversy in Genetic Testing: Clinical Data as Trade Secrets?

European Journal of Human Genetics (2012), 1-4, DOI:10.1038/ejhg.2012.217
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 01 Mar 2013
Bob Cook-Deegan, John M. Conley, James P. Evans and Daniel B. Vorhaus
Arizona State University (ASU) - School for the Future of Innovation in Society, University of North Carolina School of Law, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Medicine and Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A.
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trade secret, patent, Myriad, BRCA, database

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Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility: A Comparative Analysis of the UK and the Us

Corporate Governance: An International Review, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 147-158, May 2006
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 08 May 2006
Ruth V. Aguilera, Cynthia A. Williams, John M. Conley, Deborah Rupp and Deborah Rupp
Northeastern University - Department of International Business and Strategy, York University - Osgoode Hall Law School, University of North Carolina School of Law and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - School of Labor & Employment RelationsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Psychology
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A New Governance Approach to Regulating Human Genome Editing

UNC Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Apr 2021
John M. Conley, Arlene Davis, Gail Henderson, Karen Meagher, R. Jean Cadigan, Eric Juengst, Rebecca Walker and Margaret Waltz
University of North Carolina School of Law, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Social Medicine, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Medicine, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Medicine and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Social Medicine
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Back to the Future: Rethinking the Product of Nature Doctrine as Barrier to Biotechnology Patents

Posted: 03 Nov 2002
John M. Conley and Roberte M.D. Makowski
University of North Carolina School of Law and Villanova University - Charles Widger School of Law

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Patents, Biotechnology, Health care