Daniel Ostas

Daniel T. Ostas

Professor Emeritus

JAMES G. HARLOW, JR. CHAIR IN BUSINESS ETHICS

dostas@ou.edu
(405) 325-2651
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

About Ostas

Professor Ostas has taught business economics, business law, and business ethics at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He has received more than 20 teaching awards, including the 2018 University Regents Award for Superior Teaching.

Author of more than 80 scholarly works, including three books, Ostas has received more than a dozen academic research awards. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of both the American Business Law Journal, and the Southern Law Journal. Ostas held the James G. Harlow, Jr. Chair in Business Ethics at Price College from 1999 to 2026.

Research Areas:

Economic analysis of marketplace ethics
Ethics of corporate legal strategy
Institutional economic analysis of law

Education

Ph.D., Business Economics & Public Policy, Indiana University
J.D., Mauer School of Law, Indiana University
M.B.A., Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
B.S., Economic Honors Program, Purdue University

Publications

Ethics of Risk Management: Taking Compliance Seriously (Cambridge University Press: 2026)
“Law and Management: The Ethical Dimensions,” in The Oxford Handbook of Law and Management 616-622 (Antoine Masson, et al. eds.) (Oxford University Press: 2025).
“Strategic Compliance and Social Responsibility,” Journal of Regulatory Compliance, 14, 11-31 (2024).
"Endogenous Tax Law: Regulatory Capture and the Ethics of Political Obligation," Law and Contemporary Problems, 85(4), 49–73 (2022).
"Corporate Beneficence and COVID-19," Journal of Human Values, 27, 15–26 (2020). Co-author: Gastón de los Reyes.

View more of Ostas' publications

"Entrepreneurial Risk: Marijuana, Compliance, and the Social Construction of Law and Markets," Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, 30, 69–99 (2021).
"Corporate Beneficence and COVID-19," Journal of Human Values, 27, 15–26 (2020). Co-author: Gastón de los Reyes.
"Ethics of Legal Astuteness: Barring Class Actions Through Arbitration Clauses," Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Review, 29, 523–550 (2020). Co-author: Colleen Baker.
"Prioritizing Ethical, Economic, and Legal Duties: A Case Study in Regulatory Compliance," Southern Law Journal, 29, 299–316 (2019).
"Ethics of Tax Interpretation," Journal of Business Ethics, 54 (2018). Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10551-018-4088-7
Corporate Taxation and Social Responsibility, (Wolters-Kluwer: Stockholm, 2017). Co-author: Axel Hilling.
"Global Tax Shelters and the Need for a Pragmatic Jurisprudence," American Business Law Journal, 53, 745–785 (2016). Co-author: Axel Hilling.

Awards

Ralph C. Hoeber Award for Research Excellence (1992, 1993, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2007)
Holmes/Cardozo Award for Best Paper (1995, 1998)
ALSB Junior Faculty Award of Excellence (1996)
Harold Hackler Award for Outstanding MBA Teaching (2005, 2009, 2012, 2017)
Bruce Magoon Master Teacher Award (2002, 2014)
University Regents Award for Superior Teaching (2018)

About OU's Price College of Business

The University of Oklahoma Michael F. Price College of Business has experienced significant growth over the past five years, becoming OU’s second-largest college with over 7,000 students. The college offers highly ranked undergraduate, master’s, executive and doctoral programs across six academic divisions. More information is available at price.ou.edu