Todd Haugh
| Todd Haugh | |
| Nationality | American |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Legal scholar, professor |
| Known for | Scholarship on white-collar crime, behavioral ethics, and corporate compliance at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business |
| Education | Brown University (BA); University of Illinois College of Law (JD) |
| Website | {{{1}}} |
Todd Haugh is an American legal scholar who serves as a professor of business law and ethics at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business in Bloomington, Indiana. His research and teaching address white-collar and corporate crime, business and behavioral ethics, corporate compliance, and federal sentencing policy, with a particular focus on the decision-making of the individuals central to the commission and adjudication of economic crime.[1] Before entering academia he practiced as a white-collar criminal defense attorney and served as a federal law clerk and a Supreme Court Fellow.[2]
Education
Haugh earned a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in 1999 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois College of Law in 2002.[1] He has been described as an honors graduate of both institutions.[3]
Legal career
After law school, Haugh practiced in Chicago as a litigator focused on white-collar criminal defense. He was an associate attorney at the firm Stetler, Duffy & Rotert from 2002 to 2006 and later a senior associate attorney at Winston & Strawn from 2007 to 2009.[1] From 2006 to 2007 he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Suzanne B. Conlon of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.[1]
In 2011, Haugh was selected as a Supreme Court Fellow, a program through which a small number of appointees study the administrative operations of the federal judiciary; he held the fellowship during the 2011–2012 term.[1][2] His government service also includes work in the general counsel's office of the United States Sentencing Commission, the federal body that establishes sentencing guidelines.[3]
Academic career
Before joining Indiana University, Haugh taught at DePaul University College of Law and at Chicago-Kent College of Law.[1] He is a member of the Business Law and Ethics Department at the Kelley School of Business, where he teaches courses on business ethics, white-collar crime, and critical thinking.[1] His faculty appointments include the Arthur M. Weimer Faculty Fellowship in Business Law, and he has served as director of the school's Institute for Corporate Governance.[1] He has also been affiliated with Ethical Systems, a research collaboration on organizational ethics, where he has served as director.[3]
Haugh has received several teaching and research honors. At Indiana University he received Trustees Teaching Awards in 2017 and 2020.[1] His scholarship has been recognized with the Holmes-Cardozo Award (2021) and the Distinguished Early Career Achievement Award from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (2019), and he held the Jesse Fine Fellowship from the Poynter Center in 2016.[1] He has been a member of the board of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions.[3]
Research and writing
Haugh's scholarship examines how behavioral science bears on corporate compliance and the prevention of economic crime. A recurring theme in his work is the argument that heavily criminalized compliance regimes can be counterproductive because they foster rationalizations that allow otherwise law-abiding people to reconcile unethical conduct with a positive self-image.[3] He has written on the use of behavioral "nudges" as a tool of corporate compliance and on the limits of conventional compliance programs.[3]
His articles have appeared in law reviews and management journals, including work on the criminalization of compliance and on the application of behavioral ethics within corporations.[3] Published pieces attributed to him include "Nudging Corporate Compliance" (American Business Law Journal, 2017) and "The Criminalization of Compliance" (Notre Dame Law Review, 2017), along with later work on corporate monitorships and deferred-prosecution agreements.[3] He is a co-author of the textbook Understanding White Collar Crime, for which a fifth edition was published in 2022.[3]
Haugh is frequently cited by journalists on questions of corporate crime, compliance, and business ethics, and has been quoted in national news outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, and USA Today.[2] He has also contributed commentary to The Conversation.[2]
White Collar Conference
Haugh joined the White Collar Conference as a panelist in 2025, speaking in his capacity as a business-ethics scholar.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 "Todd Haugh — Faculty Directory". 'Indiana University Kelley School of Business}'. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Todd Haugh". 'The Conversation}'. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 "Todd Haugh". 'Ethical Systems}'. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
- ↑ "Todd Haugh — White Collar Conference". 'White Collar Conference}'. Retrieved 2026-07-23.