John Hasnas is author of the book Trapped: When Acting Ethically Is against the Law. He is associate professor of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University; director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics. His interests include ethics, law, the intersection of law and ethics, capitalism and anarcho-capitalism.

He holds a BA in Philosophy from Lafayette College, a JD and PhD in Legal Philosophy from Duke University, and a LLM in Legal Education from Temple Law School.