Corporate Compliance
This course will familiarize law students with the world of corporate compliance focusing on competition law issues, and provide basic skills to be employed in a corporate compliance department. Students will obtain a basic understanding of the legal principles related to compliance, or preventive law, and learn the interplay between compliance and ethics. They will become familiar with the principles of Chapter 8 of the United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which describe the fundamental rules for creating an effective compliance program. They will be able to understand and articulate how compliance and ethics failures impact on the success or failure of a business.