John M. Conley

Publications

• Overview: Neuroscience and the Law
  104 N. C. L. REV. 1121 (2026) · North Carolina Law Review · 2026
• Can Bioethics Guide Governance in Public Health Emergencies? Lessons from the Pandemic
  23 N. C. J. L. & TECH. 701 (2022) · North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology · 2022
• Diversity from the Perspective of Corporate Boards and Lawyer Disciplinary Boards
  15 ST. LOUIS U. J. HEALTH L. & POL'Y (2021) · Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy · 2021
• A New Governance Approach to Regulating Human Genome Editing
  22 N. C. J. L. & TECH. 107 (2020) · North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology · 2020

• Introduction: A Lawyer's Guide to CRISPR
  97 N. C. L. REV. 1041 (2019) · North Carolina Law Review · 2019
• Recent Privacy Law Developments with Major Implications for Medical and Scientific Research
  19 N. C. J. L. & TECH. 327 (2019) · North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology · 2019
• Can Soft Regulation Prevent Financial Crises?: The Dutch Central Bank's Supervision of Behavior and Culture
  51 CORNELL INT'L L.J. 773 (2019) · Cornell International Law Journal · 2019
• Justice and Judgment Among the Whomever: An Anthropological Approach to Judging
  67 DUKE L.J. 135 (2018) · Duke Law Journal · 2018
• A Difficult Conversation: Corporate Directors on Race and Gender
  26 PACE INT'L L. REV. 13 (2014) · Pace International Law Review · 2014
• Myriad after Myriad: The Proprietary Data Dilemma
  15 N. C. J. L. & TECH. 597 (2014) · North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology · 2014
• Trends in the Social [Ir]responsibility of American Multinational Corporations: Increased Power, Diminished Accountability
  25 FORDHAM ENVTL. L. REV. 46 (2013) · Fordham Environmental Law Review · 2013
• Enabling Responsible Public Genomics
  20 HEALTH MATRIX 325 (2012) · Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine · 2012
• Does Critical Mass Matter? Views From the Boardroom
  34 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 1049 (2011) · Seattle University Law Review · 2011
• Dangerous Categories: Narratives of Corporate Board Diversity
  89 N. C. L. REV. 759 (2011) · North Carolina Law Review · 2011

• Gene Patents and the Product of Nature Doctrine
  84 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 109 (2008) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2008
• The Curse of History: Good Bank Brands Make Bad Bank Trademarks
  11 N. C. BANK. INST. 1 (2007) · North Carolina Banking Institute · 2007
• Triumph or Tragedy? The Curious Path of Corporate Disclosure Reform in the U.K.
  31 WM. & MARY ENVTL. L. & POL'Y REV. 317 (2007) · William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review · 2007
• Introduction to the 2005 North Carolina Law Review Symposium, Empirical Studies of the Legal Profession: What Do We Know about Lawyers' Lives
  84 N. C. L. REV. 1415 (2006) · North Carolina Law Review · 2006
• The Profession in Profile: A Commentary on Baker and Parkin
  84 N. C. L. REV. 1683 (2006) · North Carolina Law Review · 2006
• An Emerging Third Way - The Erosion of the Anglo-American Shareholder Value Construct
  38 CORNELL INT'L L.J. 493 (2005) · Cornell International Law Journal · 2005
• We Are Not Daubert State - But What Are We - Scientific Evidence in North Carolina after Howerton
  6 N. C. J. L. & TECH. 289 (2005) · North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology · 2005
• How Bad Is It out There: Teaching and Learning about the State of the Legal Profession in North Carolina
  82 N. C. L. REV. 1943 (2004) · North Carolina Law Review · 2004
• Of Cherries, Fudge, and Onions: Science and Its Courtroom Perversion
  64 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 213 (2001) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 2001
• Foreword
  64 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. (2001) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 2001
• Of Contract, Culture, and the Code: Judge Easterbrook and the Cheyenne Indians
  16 TOURO L. REV. (2000) · Touro Law Review · 2000

• Database Protection in a Digital World
  6 RICH. J. L. & TECH. 2 (1999) · Richmond Journal of Law & Technology · 1999
• Crime and Custom in Corporate Society: A Cultural Perspective on Corporate Misconduct
  60 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 5 (1997) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 1997
• The Science of Gatekeeping: The Federal Judicial Center's New Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence
  74 N. C. L. REV. 1183 (1996) · North Carolina Law Review · 1996
• The Social Science of Ideology and the Ideology of Social Science
  72 N. C. L. REV. 1249 (1994) · North Carolina Law Review · 1994
• Legal Anthropology Comes Home: A Brief History of the Ethnographic Study of Law
  27 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 41 (1993) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 1993
• The Culture of Capital: An Anthropological Investigation of Institutional Investment
  70 N. C. L. REV. 823 (1992) · North Carolina Law Review · 1992

• Hearing the Hidden Agenda: The Ethnographic Investigation of Procedure
  51 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 181 (1988) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 1988
• Fundamentals of Jurisprudence: An Ethnography of Judicial Decision Making in Informal Courts
  66 N. C. L. REV. 467 (1988) · North Carolina Law Review · 1988
• The First Principle of Real Reform: The Role of Science in Constitutional Jurisprudence
  65 N. C. L. REV. 935 (1987) · North Carolina Law Review · 1987
• A Unifying Theory for the Litigation of Computer Software Copyright Cases, 6 Computer L.J. 55 (1985)
  6 UIC J. MARSHALL J. INFO. TECH. & PRIVACY L. (1985) · UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law · 1985
• A Unifying Theory for the Litigation of Computer Software Copyright Cases
  63 N. C. L. REV. 563 (1985) · North Carolina Law Review · 1985
• Software Escrow in Bankruptcy: An International Perspective
  10 N. C. J. INT'L L. 579 (1985) · North Carolina Journal of International Law · 1985

• The Power of Language: Presentational Style in the Courtroom
  27 DUKE L.J. 1375 (1979) · Duke Law Journal · 1979
• Judicial Review Under the Clean Air Amendments
  25 DUKE L.J. 450 (1976) · Duke Law Journal · 1976
• Constitutional Veto of Administrative Action: The Probable Response to a Constitutional Challenge
  25 DUKE L.J. 285 (1976) · Duke Law Journal · 1976