CURRICULUM VITAE
John Paul Rollert
2746 N. Hampden Court, #2-O
Chicago, IL 60614
(617) 594-5124
[email protected]
HIGHER EDUCATION
Ph.D. Candidate, The John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago
(Degree Expected: Spring 2013)
M.A. Thesis: “A Hero For Our Time: The Prudent Man in Adam Smith”
Focus: Ethics, Political Economy
J.D., Yale Law School (2011)
Focus: Constitutional Law, Business Organizations
A.B., Harvard University (2001)
Honors: magna cum laude
Concentration: Social Studies
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
38115 Ethics of Business (Spring 2012)
Harvard Extension School
MGMT S-4150 Principles and Lessons on Leadership (January Term 2012)
MGMT E-4195 Business Ethics (January Term 2011)
Harvard Summer School
MGMT S-4150 Leadership (Summer 2010, 2011, scheduled 2012)
OBHR S-192 Principles and Lessons on Leadership (Summer 2008, 2009)
MGMT S-156 Business Ethics (Summer 2008)
SSAM S-133 Business Ethics: Principles and (Mal)Practices (Summer 2005, 2006, 2007)
GOVT S-10 Introduction to Political Philosophy, Teaching Fellow (Summer 2003, 2004)
RESEARCH PAPERS
“Standing in Barack Obama's Shoes: Judging the President's Jurisprudence of Empathy by
James Wilson's Jurisprudence of Common Sense” forthcoming from The Journal of Law,
Culture & the Humanities (2012)
“Does the Top Really Support the Bottom? - Adam Smith and the Problem of the Commercial
Pyramid” Business and Society Review Volume 116, Issue 2 (2011)
“Reversed on Appeal: The Uncertain Future of President Obama’s “Empathy Standard” 120 The
Yale Law Journal Online 89 (2010)
RESEARCH PAPERS IN PROGRESS
“Whose Name Is on the Line? Public Reputation and Personal Success in a Free Market”
“The Autobiography: Benjamin’s Franklin Secrets to Business Success”
“The Gift Outright? The Aspiration to Philanthropy for the Business Elite”
OTHER WRITING
“A Tale of Two Smiths: What Capitalism's Founder Would Think of Goldman's Greed” Next
New Deal: Blog of the Roosevelt Institute (reprinted at The Huffington Post), April 20, 2012
“The enduring fallacy of the CEO President” Politico, February 24, 2012
“American presidents share these key leadership qualities” The Spark, February 20, 2012
“A Matter of Trusts” Slate Magazine, December 20, 2011
“A Failure of Will: Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous” The Point Magazine, December 12, 2011
“The moral crisis of modern capitalism” Salon, November 9, 2011
“The hardy myth of ‘job creators’” Salon, September 28, 2011
“Justice Sotomayor – not guilty of ‘empathy’” The Christian Science Monitor Weekly Review,
August 29, 2011
“What Would Adam Smith Think of the Idea of “Job Creators”? Rortybomb (reprinted at
Salon.com), August 8, 2011
“The Great Infidel at 300” The Huffington Post, June 4, 2011
“Obama’s Empathy for the Supreme Court” The Huffington Post, March 22, 2011
“Sam Alito: Setting the "Empathy Standard" for the Supreme Court” The Huffington Post, March
16, 2011
“Students Teach Business Ethics” Harvard Business Review Online, March 1, 2011
“Adam Smith and the Wall Street Bonuses” The Huffington Post, February 16, 2011
“From bureaucrat to businessman: Orszag's path reveals what really seals deals” The Christian
Science Monitor, January 24, 2011
“Going Beyond Business Ethics-as-Castor Oil” (Third in a Three Part Series on Business Ethics
after the Financial Crisis) Harvard Business Review Online, October 14, 2010
“Does the Tea Party Take the Constitution Seriously?” The Huffington Post, October 6, 2010
“The Problem with Capitalism? Capitalists.” (Second in a Three Part Series on Business Ethics
after the Financial Crisis) Harvard Business Review Online, September 22, 2010
“When Lehman’s Fall Called Capitalism into Question” (First in a Three Part Series on Business
Ethics after the Financial Crisis) Harvard Business Review Online, September 15, 2010
“A Coda to the Kagan Nomination: Empathy, Impartiality and the (Mis)Education of Jeff
Sessions” The Huffington Post, August 16, 2010
“Ben Franklin’s MBA Oath” Harvard Business Review Online, July 28, 2010
“The surprising star at Elena Kagan's hearing: Thurgood Marshall” Christian Science Monitor,
July 8, 2010 (reprinted in The Baltimore Sun, July 12, 2010)
“Leading in a New Direction: Barack Obama’s Changing Leadership Style” The Huffington
Post, July 2, 2010
“Elena Kagan: Would she embody empathy as a Supreme Court justice?” The Christian Science
Monitor, May 10, 2010
“Goldman Sachs bonuses: more than just bad PR” The Christian Science Monitor, December 18,
2009
“Bernard Madoff, Adam Smith, and capitalism’s moral crisis” The Christian Science Monitor,
September 21, 2009
“Eddie McConnehey Contemplates Martyrdom” The Madison Review, Spring 2001
“How We Say Things” The Harvard Advocate, Winter 2001
PRESENTATIONS
“‘Fatherland’ and the Fiction of Nightmare.” Delivered at The John U. Nef Committee on Social
Thought Colloquium, The University of Chicago, November 15, 2011
“The Great Gatsby and the Insensible Imagination.” Delivered at the Literature and Philosophy
Workshop, The John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago,
scheduled for May 26, 2011
“How We Say Things: A Reading and Talk.” Delivered at St. Anthony Hall, Yale University,
April 22, 2009
“Un Objetivo personal y professional.” Delivered at I Congreso Conciliación, Pozuelo, Spain,
February 25, 2009
“How We Say Things: A Reading and Talk.” Delivered at The John U. Nef Committee on Social
Thought Colloquium, The University of Chicago, November 19, 2007
REFEREEING
Leadership (Sage)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Obama for America Campaign Headquarters, Public Policy Team (September 2007-November
2008)
Obama for America Campaign Headquarters, Political Outreach Team (May 2007-July 2008)
Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General, Speechwriting Unit (Winter 2001)
HONORS AND AWARDS
Featured Syllabus, CasePlace.org, The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Exchange Scholar, Yale University (Spring, 2009)
Harvard College Dean’s List (1996-2001)
John Harvard Scholar (1996-2001)
Harvard College Edward Eager Prize for Fiction Writing (2000)
MEDIA INTERVIEWS
The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio, The Boston Herald, Financial
Post
OTHER MEDIA COVERAGE
USA Today, National Review Online (Bench Memos), Reuters, SCOTUSblog, Rortybomb,
Harvard Law and Policy Review, The American Conservative, NPR, National Post