Exploring Legal & Business History
I am currently a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in the Department of History where I research the history of law, moral economy and business.
New Research and Presentations
High Tariffs = Smuggling = the Offshore World
I recently wrote for ProMarket about how early modern smuggling stimulated a network of tax evasion through offshore havens. For some modern parallels have a read of A Tale of Tariffs and the Making of the Modern Offshore Market.
Paper: Reimagining the Mid-Century American Corporation: Spirituality, Business Ethics and the Campaign of the Federal Council of Churches
The same year as the founding of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947, the Federal Council of Churches met in Pittsburgh to imagine the future of business very differently and with it, the field of business ethics. Find out more at the Harvard Business School, Business History Seminar
Paper: How Early Modern Dark Markets made a Global Offshore
Discover the (Il)licit trade of the Isle of Man and its global networks at the 4th Legal Histories of Empire Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 10-12, 2025
The Intellectual History of Milton Friedman's Criticism of Corporate Social Responsibility
My article on the intellectual origins of Milton Friedman's famous criticism of corporate social responsibility and monopoly is now available at Modern Intellectual History
Smuggling Database
Explore the early modern smugglers' world and visit my new database on smuggling prosecutions