Professor Todd Haugh

Professor Haugh's research and teaching focuses on white collar crime, federal sentencing, and business and behavioral ethics. A graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law and Brown University, prior to entering academia, he was a Supreme Court Fellow, federal law clerk, and white collar criminal defense attorney.  He frequently consults with Fortune 500 companies on behavioral compliance and conduct risk management. 

Areas of Expertise

White collar and corporate crime; business and behavioral ethics; moral decision making and critical thinking; sentencing and punishment for economic crime and public corruption.

Academic Degrees

• JD, University of Illinois College of Law, 2002
• BA, Brown University, 1999

Professional Experience

• Supreme Court Fellow, Supreme Court of the United States, 2011-12
• Senior Associate Attorney, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, 2007-09
• Law Clerk, Hon. Suzanne B. Conlon, Senior District Judge, Northern District of Illinois, 2006-07
• Associate Attorney, Stetler, Duffy & Rotert, Chicago, 2002-06

Awards, Honors & Certificates

• Holmes-Cardozo Award for Outstanding Paper, Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 2021
• Sports and Entertainment Law Paper Award, Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 2021
• Trustees Teaching Award, Kelley School of Business, 2020
• Distinguished Early Career Achievement Award, Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 2019
• Outstanding Proceedings Paper Award, Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 2019
• Virginia Maurer Distinguished Ethics Paper Award, Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 2019
• Finalist, Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Indiana University, 2019
• Finalist, Sauvain Undergraduate Teaching Award, Kelley School of Business, 2019
• Innovative Teaching Award (co-recipient), Kelley School of Business, 2019
• Finalist, Master Teacher Competition, Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 2019
• Hoeber Memorial Award for Excellence in Research, Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 2018
• McGraw-Hill Education Best Paper Award, MBAA International, 2018
• Finalist, Sauvain Undergraduate Teaching Award, Kelley School of Business, 2018
• Virginia Maurer Best Ethics Paper Award, Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 2017
• Best Paper Award, Mid-Atlantic Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 2017
• Trustees Teaching Award, Kelley School of Business, 2017
• McGraw-Hill Education Distinguished Paper Award, MBAA International, 2016
• Jesse Fine Fellowship, The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, 2016
• Innovative Teaching Award (co-recipient), Kelley School of Business, 2015

Selected Publications

• Strader, J. K., and Haugh, T. Understanding White Collar Crime, Fifth Edition. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press (in press 2022).
• Fort, T. L., and Haugh, T. Music, Business and Peace: Sketching the Terrain. In Constance Cook Glen & Timothy L. Fort (Eds.) Music, Business and Peace Building (in press 2022).
• 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 (in press 2021).
• Haugh, T. Understanding and Managing Behavioral Ethics Risk. In Virginia Suveiu (Ed.) Handbook of Risk Management and the Law. Abington, UK: Routledge Press (in press 2021).
• Haugh, T. Leading a Healthier Company: Advancing a Public Health Model of Ethics and Compliance. 58 American Business Law Journal XX (in press 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).
• Grow, N., and Haugh, T. Opinion: Why the NCAA Should Hope It Loses at the Supreme Court. Chicago Tribune (March 23, 2021).
• Prenkert, J. D., Barnes, A. J., Perry, J. W., Haugh, T., and Stemler, A. Business Law: The Legal, Global, and Digital Environment 18th Edition. Columbus, OH: McGraw Hill (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).
• Haugh, T., and Bedi, S. Opinion: Just Because You Test Positive for Antibodies Doesn’t Mean You Have Them. New York Times (May 13, 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. Modeling the Message: Closing the Knowledge Gap in Business Law and Ethics Classes. 36 Journal of Legal Studies Education 159 (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. Review of Mary Kreiner Ramirez & Steven A. Ramirez, The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty: Restoring Law and Order on Wall Street. 133 Political Science Quarterly 595 (2018).
• Haugh, T. The Criminalization of Compliance. 92 Notre Dame Law Review 1215 (2017).
• Haugh, T. Exactly Wrong: Why the Trump Administration’s Stated Policies Will Increase Corporate Crime. 29 Federal Sentencing Reporter, 91 (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., and Bernardo, K. (2016). Sentencing. In Peter M. Koelling (Ed.) The Improvement of the Administration of Justice, Eighth Edition. Chicago, IL: American Bar Association.
• 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. The Reform Commission. 26 Federal Sentencing Report 258 (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).
• Haugh, T., Hagan, J., and Brooks, R. (2012). Reasonable Grounds Evidence Involving Sexual Violence in Darfur. In Anne-Marie de Brouwer, et al., (Eds.) Sexual Violence as an International Crime: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Cambridge, UK: Intersentia.
• Haugh, T., and Hagan, J. (2011). Ethnic Cleansing as Euphemism, Metaphor, Criminology and Law. In Leila Nadya Sadat (Ed.) Forging a Convention for Crimes against Humanity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Haugh, T., Hagan, J., and Brooks, R. From the Trenches and Towers: Reasonable Grounds Evidence Involving Sexual Violence in Darfur. 35 Law & Social Inquiry 881 (2010).