Chapin Cimino
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
School of Law
Drexel University
United States of America
Biography
"Chapin Cimino brings an interdisciplinary approach to her research. Her private law research challenges traditional assumptions about the utilitarian goals of contract, as well as the values best served by contract law. Her work includes explorations of contract law through the lens of Aristotle’s virtue theory and Adam Smith’s theory of moral sentiments, as well as a reconsideration of contract law in light of new empirical data establishing that contractors seeks goals beyond financial gain. She applies a similar interdisciplinary perspective to her public law scholarship, with a focus on virtue and sincerity in the application of the First Amendment and anti-discrimination law. "
Research Interest
Contract Theory
Publications
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"Virtue Jurisprudence (original chapter providing an overview and critical analysis of the current state of virtue jurisprudence legal scholarship as part of an interdisciplinary volume on Ethics)"
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"Freeing Speech and the First Amendment Value of Promoting Public Discussion (describing the First Amendment implications of a reporter’s effort to obtain public records under state right to know law in Philadelphia, PA, before the 2016 Democratic National Convention). "
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"Doing Deals With Aristotle (reviewing economics research showing that modern economic actors, in both business-to-business and individual transactions, often behave consistently with the Aristotelian concept of a just exchange, and proposing review of modern contract doctrine from that perspective).
