Rate My Professor Josh Perry

Josh Perry serves as Executive Vice Dean for Kelley Bloomington and Conrad Prebys Professor in the Department of Business Law & Ethics at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He holds a Juris Doctor and Master of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt University, both earned in 2002, and a Bachelor of Arts from Lipscomb University in 1997. Prior to entering academia, Perry worked as a business litigation associate from 2002 to 2004. He joined the Kelley School of Business in 2009 and has since advanced through various leadership positions, including faculty chair of the Undergraduate Program and associate dean for academics.

Perry specializes in legal, ethical, and policy issues pertaining to healthcare, the life sciences industry, and the business of medicine, with additional interests in moral decision making, critical thinking, and professional ethics. His key publications include the co-authored textbook Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment (17th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2018); Law and Ethics in the Business of Healthcare (West Academic, 2017, with D.B. Thompson); “The Code of the Platform,” 54 Georgia Law Review 605 (2020, with A. Stemler and T. Haugh); “Political Figures and the Appropriation of Others’ Music: Legal and Ethical Perspectives,” 20 Texas Review of Entertainment & Sports Law 25 (2019, with A.W. Langvardt); “Trust and Transparency: Patient Perceptions of Physicians’ Financial Relationships with Pharmaceutical Companies,” 42 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 475 (2014, with D.S. Cox and A.D. Cox); and “Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Health Care Reform at the Intersection of Law and Ethics,” 49 American Business Law Journal 369 (2012).

Perry has earned significant recognition for his teaching and research, including the Indiana University Trustees’ Teaching Award in 2010, 2013, and 2019; Kelley School of Business Innovative Teaching Award in 2015 and 2019; Hoeber Memorial Award for Excellence in Research from the American Business Law Journal in 2014 and 2012; Virginia Maurer Ethics Paper Award from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business in 2011 and 2019; and the Distinguished Junior Faculty Award from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business in 2013. He has also contributed as guest editor for special issues in Business Horizons (2018) and Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (2014).