Signing Off and Thanks for the Opportunity (December 17, 2011)

Thanks to Erik Gerding for the opportunity to share some of my ideas on corporate criminal liability, Dodd-Frank, corporate influences... (Category: Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Crime and Criminal Law, Current Affairs, Education, Junior Scholars, Law Schools/Lawyering, Teaching, White Collar Crime)

Educating Today’s Law Students to Be Tomorrow’s Counselors and Gatekeepers (December 16, 2011)

Law schools are under attack. Depending upon the source, between 20-50% of corporate counsel won’t pay for junior associate work... (Category: Business Organizations, Comparative Law, Contracts, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Current Affairs, Education, Fiduciary Law, Finance, Globalization/Trade, Innovation, Junior Scholars, Law Schools/Lawyering, Popular Culture, Small Business, Social Responsibility, Teaching)

Does a Corporation Have a Conscience and Can It Tempt Ethical People to Do Bad Things? (December 14, 2011)

Time Magazine’s “person of the year” is the “protestor.” Occupy Wall Street’s participants have generated discussion unprecedented in recent years... (Category: Agency Law, Books, Business Ethics, Business Organizations, Contracts, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Crime and Criminal Law, Economics, Empirical Legal Studies, Employees, Enron, Junior Scholars, Law & Economics, Law & Society, Management, Organizational Theory, Politics, Sociology, White Collar Crime)

Corporate Criminal Liability- Prosecutors in the Boardroom and the Call for an Affirmative Defense (December 12, 2011)

Massey Energy and Walmart made headlines last week for different reasons. Massey had the worst mining disaster in 40 years,... (Category: Business Ethics, Business Organizations, Businesses of Note, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Crime and Criminal Law, Current Affairs, Junior Scholars, Organizational Theory, Wal-Mart, White Collar Crime)

Missing the Mark and Wasting a Crisis: The Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Bounty Provision and a Call for An Affirmative Defense for Corporate Criminal Liability (December 08, 2011)

Like its predecessor Sarbanes-Oxley which is less than a decade old, some have labeled Dodd-Frank the latest in a round... (Category: )

The Dodd-Frank Conflict Minerals Disclosure, Corporate Responsibility and Compliance in a Human Rights Crisis - Part 2 (December 07, 2011)

In my last post I described the Dodd-Frank conflicts mineral provision, which requires U.S. issuers to discuss how they are... (Category: )

Dodd-Frank and Conflict Minerals- Can A Governance Disclosure Eliminate Rape, Corruption and Child Slavery in the Democratic Republic of Congo- Part 1 (December 06, 2011)

As mentioned during my inaugural post, I spent the last nineteen years in the private sector, most recently as deputy... (Category: Corporate Governance, Globalization/Trade, Social Responsibility)

Greetings from a new academic and a preview of future posts (December 05, 2011)

I am honored to be a guest blogger, especially since I am brand new to the academy having worked in... (Category: Books, Business Ethics, Corporate Governance, Junior Scholars, Law Schools/Lawyering, Social Responsibility)