The course will cover the substantive white collar criminal law of corporate criminal liability, mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, criminal antitrust, tax fraud and the United States Sentencing Guidelines. It will also address from a procedural perspective corporate internal investigations, grand jury, investigations, representation of targets and subjects and pretrial motion practice. Time permitting, this course will include lectures, demonstrations and student simulations of pretrial negotiations, opening statements, direct and cross examinations, closing arguments and effective sentencing advocacy in the white collar criminal context. Evidence and Criminal Procedure are prerequisites. Enrollment is limited to 16 students, and interested students are required to submit, via email to the Law school registrar, a statement of interest in white collar criminal law.
Statements are due upon registration.