Todd Haugh, Ethical Systems Director

Todd Haugh is the Director of Ethical Systems and an Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.  His scholarship focuses on white collar and corporate crime, business and behavioral ethics, and federal sentencing policy, exploring the decision-making processes of the players most central to the commission and adjudication of economic crime and unethical business conduct.  His work has appeared in top law and business journals, including the Northwestern University Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Georgia Law Review, and the MIT-Sloan Management Review.  Professor Haugh’s expertise relating to the burgeoning field of behavioral compliance has led to frequent speaking and consulting engagements with major U.S. companies and ethics organizations.  He is also regularly quoted in national news publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg News, and USA Today, as well as various legal, business, and popular blogs.

An honors graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law and Brown University, Professor Haugh has extensive professional experience as a white collar criminal defense attorney, a federal law clerk, and a member of the general counsel’s office of the United States Sentencing Commission.  In 2011, he was chosen as one of four Supreme Court Fellows of the Supreme Court of the United States to study the administrative machinery of the federal judiciary.

Prior to joining the Kelley School, where he teaches courses on business ethics, white collar crime, and critical thinking, Prof. Haugh taught criminal procedure and advanced legal writing and advocacy at DePaul University College of Law and Chicago-Kent College of Law.  He is a recipient of numerous teaching awards, including multiple Trustees Teaching Awards and Innovative Teaching Awards, and a Jesse Fine Fellowship from the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, to which he now serves as a board member.  In both his scholarship and teaching, Professor Haugh takes a unique look at how ethics, law, business, and psychology interact in today’s complex world. 

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Selected Publications:

  • Todd Haugh & Hui Chen, Remaking Monitroships: A First Principles Approach to Monitor Effectiveness, 2025 University of Illinois Law Review (forthcoming 2025).
  • Leora Eisenstadt & Todd Haugh, Nudging Diversity: Merging Law and Behavioral Science to Reduce Workplace Discrimination and Increase Diversity, 74 Emory Law Journal (forthcoming 2024).
  • Todd Haugh & Mason McCartney, DPA Discounts, 61 American Criminal Law Review (Georgetown) 35 (2024).
  • Todd Haugh & Suneal Bedi, Valuing Corporate Compliance, 109 Iowa Law Review 541 (2024).
  • Haugh, T. Power Distributions in Compliance. In Melissa Rorie & Benjamin van Rooij (Eds.) Measuring Compliance: How to Assess Legal and Regulatory Conformity in Business Organizations. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press (2022).
  • Haugh, T. Understanding and Managing Behavioral Ethics Risk. In Virginia Suveiu (Ed.) Handbook of Risk Management and the Law. Abington, UK: Routledge Press (2022).
  • Strader, J. K., and Haugh, T. Understanding White Collar Crime, Fifth Edition. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press (2022).
  • Haugh, T. Leading a Healthier Company: Advancing a Public Health Model of Ethics and Compliance. 58 American Business Law Journal 799 (2021).
  • Haugh, T. (2021) Criminalized Compliance. In D. Daniel Sokol and Benjamin van Rooij (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Haugh, T. Dual System Thinking Theory Explained in Infographics, Subscriptlaw (July 8, 2021).
  • Haugh, T. Emerging Ethics. In Evan Nesterak (Ed.) Imagining the Next Decade of Behavioral Science. Behavioral Scientist, (Jan. 20, 2020).
  • Stemler, A., Perry, J., and Haugh, T. The Code of the Platform, 54 Georgia Law Review 605 (2020).
  • Fort, T. L., and Haugh, T. Cultural Foundations of Peace: How Business, Law, Ethics, and Music Can Provide Infrastructure for Social Harmony. 17 Berkeley Business Law Journal 194 (2020).
  • Haugh, T. Behavioral Ethics: Euphemisms. In Deborah C. Poff and Alex C. Michalos (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. New York, NY: Springer Publishing (2019).
  • Haugh, T. Behavioral Ethics: Rationalizations. In Deborah C. Poff and Alex C. Michalos (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. New York, NY: Springer Publishing (2019).
  • Haugh, T. Harmonizing Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance Through the Paradigm of Behavioral Ethics Risk. 21 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law 873 (2019).
  • Haugh, T. The Power Few of Corporate Compliance. 53 Georgia Law Review 129 (2018).
  • Haugh, T. Caremark’s Behavioral Legacy. 90 Temple Law Review 611 (2018).
  • Haugh, T. The Criminalization of Compliance. 92 Notre Dame Law Review 1215 (2017).
  • Haugh, T. Nudging Corporate Compliance. 54 American Business Law Journal 683 (2017).
  • Haugh, T. The Ethics of Intracorporate Behavioral Ethics. 8 California Law Review (Berkeley) Online 1 (2017).
  • Haugh, T. “Cadillac Compliance” Breakdown. 69 Stanford Law Review Online 198 (2017).
  • Haugh, T. The Trouble with Corporate Compliance Programs. 59 MIT Sloan Management Review 198 (2017).
  • Haugh, T. Overcriminalization’s New Harm Paradigm. 68 Vanderbilt Law Review 1191 (2015).
  • Haugh, T. SOX on Fish: A New Harm of Overcriminalization. 109 Northwestern University Law Review 835 (2015).
  • Haugh, T. The Most Senior Wall Street Official: Evaluating the State of Financial Crisis Prosecutions. 9 Virginia Law & Business Review 153 (2015).
  • Haugh, T. Sentencing the Why of White Collar Crime. 82 Fordham Law Review 3143 (2014).
  • Haugh, T. (2013). Chicago’s “Great Boodle Trial.” In Lori Andrews and Sarah Hardings, (Eds.) Then & Now: Stories of Law and Progress. Chicago. IL: IIT Chicago-Kent.
  • Haugh, T. Can the CEO Learn From the Condemned? The Application of Capital Mitigation Strategies to White Collar Cases. 62 American Law Review 1 (2012).