That’s the conclusion of two rising young stars in the corporate crime academic world – Iowa Law School Professor Mihailis Diamantis and Michigan Ross School of Business Professor Will Thomas in a new ...

Let’s start with the Crime Victims Rights Act (CVRA). Passed by Congress in 2004—out of concern that the government too often ignored or dismissed the legitimate interests of crime victims—the CVRA ...

Crimes without criminals was not a subject for study when I was in law school. The two were seen as part of the same illegal package. That was before notorious corporate lawyers and a cash register ...

Since the 1909 case of New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co. v. United States, federal prosecutors have tried cases where companies have been charged with criminal conduct. Many are tasked with ...

Critics of former President Donald Trump likely cheered the recent conviction of the Trump Organization on charges of tax fraud and other crimes. At the same time, they may have been disappointed that ...

Summary: Shakespeare’s observation that the “past is prologue” certainly applies to corporate criminal liability in the UK and France, as these jurisdictions embrace with gusto corporate prosecutions ...

At around 10am on 26th September 1969, old age pensioner Thomas Coane stepped into the Tesco Supermarket at 42 Witton Street, Northwich and, in doing so, became the source of arcane legal trivia. It ...

Much attention has been focused on U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) policies governing the prosecution of white-collar crime. A federal district court recently ruled that DOJ violated several ...

On 26 October 2023, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the "Act" or "EECTA") received royal assent and became law. The Act introduced a number of changes, some of which came into ...