International Money Laundering, Corruption, and Terrorism

3 units

Enrollment limit: 25. Meets every Tuesday and every other Thursday. This course focuses on the interrelationships among money laundering, corruption, and terrorism, their threat to global peace and prosperity, and the convergence of international law efforts to confront them. Because the detection of concealed assets is essential to deterring these crimes, students will learn the fundamentals of financial investigation and cooperation between countries through a mid-course interactive simulated case exercise designed to take students, via walking through the steps of a hypothetical financial investigation in an automated environment, from the basics of money laundering, corruption/terrorism violations, and Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) to an advanced level of understanding and capability. Students will bring their laptops to each class and use them to follow a money trail involving documentary evidence and summarized bank records. Thirty-five percent (35%) of the course grade will be based on a paper which organizes the evidence from the Simulated Case Exercise in a format useful for attorneys in preparation for trial. The remaining 65% of the course grade will be based upon an essay-type take-home final examination at the conclusion of the course. 3 units.