White Collar Crime

2 Credit Hours

This course will introduce students to the law governing the prosecution and defense of white collar crime. The course will cover the substantive law in the area such as mail and wire fraud, bribery, insider trading, perjury, and obstruction of justice. The course will also provide an overview of procedural and practical issues, such as the use of the grand jury, Fifth Amendment invocation, internal investigations, parallel civil and criminal proceedings, corporate compliance programs, and sentencing. Finally, the course will put these principles into context with case studies on past and recent white collar crime cases, and will draw on the instructors' experiences as both federal prosecutors and defense lawyers. Open to second and third-year law students. Students will be graded based on a final examination (75%) and class participation (25%). Text: White Collar Crime, Cases & Materials, Third Edition, By J. Kelly Strader and Sandra D. Johnson, with document supplement.