Daniel Ostas

Daniel T. Ostas

Professor of Legal Studies

JAMES G. HARLOW, JR. CHAIR IN BUSINESS ETHICS

dostas@ou.edu
(405) 325-2651
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

About Ostas

Professor Ostas earned a Master of Business Administration, Juris Doctor, and Ph.D. in business economics, all from Indiana University. He has taught business economics, business law, and business ethics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has received more than 20 teaching awards, including the 2018 University Regents Award for Superior Teaching.

Ostas’s research focuses on the economics of marketplace ethics and the ethics of corporate legal strategy. The author of more than 70 scholarly works, including three books, he has received more than a dozen international research awards.

Research Areas:

Economic analysis of marketplace ethics
Ethics of corporate legal strategy
Institutional economic analysis of law

Education

Ph.D. in business economics, Indiana University
Juris Doctor, School of Law, Indiana University
Master of Business Administration, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Bachelor of Science, Purdue University

Publications

"The Ethics of Risk Management: Taking Compliance Seriously" (Cambridge University Press) (forthcoming).

"Endogenous Tax Law: Regulatory Capture and the Ethics of Political Obligation," Law and Contemporary Problems, 85(4), 49–73 (2022). Public Policy: Duke Law School.

"Aristotelian Decency as a Corrective for Compliance-Induced Environmental Racism," Georgetown Environmental Law Review, 34, 33–66 (2021). Co-author: Gastón de los Reyes.

"Entrepreneurial Risk: Marijuana, Compliance, and the Social Construction of Law and Markets," Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, 30, 69–99 (2021).

"Corporate Beneficence and COVID-19," Journal of Human Values, 27, 15–26 (2020). Co-author: Gastón de los Reyes.

"Ethics of Legal Astuteness: Barring Class Actions Through Arbitration Clauses," Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Review, 29, 523–550 (2020). Co-author: Colleen Baker.

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"Endogenous Tax Law: Regulatory Capture and the Ethics of Political Obligation," Law and Contemporary Problems, 85(4), 49–73 (2022). Public Policy: Duke Law School.
"Aristotelian Decency as a Corrective for Compliance-Induced Environmental Racism," Georgetown Environmental Law Review, 34, 33–66 (2021). Co-author: Gastón de los Reyes.
"Entrepreneurial Risk: Marijuana, Compliance, and the Social Construction of Law and Markets," Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, 30, 69–99 (2021).
"Corporate Beneficence and COVID-19," Journal of Human Values, 27, 15–26 (2020). Co-author: Gastón de los Reyes.
"Ethics of Legal Astuteness: Barring Class Actions Through Arbitration Clauses," Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Review, 29, 523–550 (2020). Co-author: Colleen Baker.
"Prioritizing Ethical, Economic, and Legal Duties: A Case Study in Regulatory Compliance," Southern Law Journal, 29, 299–316 (2019).
"Ethics of Tax Interpretation," Journal of Business Ethics, 54 (2018). Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10551-018-4088-7
"Corporate Taxation and Social Responsibility," co-authored with Axel Hilling. Wolters-Kluwer: Stockholm, 2017.
"Global Tax Shelters and the Need for a Pragmatic Jurisprudence," American Business Law Journal, 53, 745–785 (2016). Co-author: Axel Hilling.

Awards

Ralph C. Hoeber Award for Research Excellence (6 times)
Holmes/Cardozo Award for Best Paper (2 times)
ALSB Junior Faculty Award of Excellence (1996)
Harold Hackler Award for Outstanding MBA Teaching (4 times)
Bruce Magoon Master Teacher Award (2 times)
University Regents Award for Superior Teaching (2018)

About OU's Price College of Business

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