Seminar in Law and Compliance

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Section information text: Recent cases of corporate greed, bankruptcy, and fraud, as well as the collapse of the housing market and its fallout in the investment community, have prompted the need for new regulatory pressures; these include laws, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, and compliance systems, either from third parties, such as the efforts of the Global Reporting Initiative or new watchdogs developed to address the failure of the market's self-correcting mechanisms. Independent scholars in this seminar course examine these new ways of doing business in today's sociopolitical climate from a legal perspective, including identification of opportunities for new research in law and compliance. They formulate an original research topic and assess the potential impact of their findings on the fields of law and compliance. They also give and receive feedback through peer critiques. Independent scholars accomplish course objectives by examining current information, such as foundational literature and theories, seminal works, and established models in the fields of law and compliance.