C-BERC Event Examines ‘Too Big to Jail’ Corporations
Before a standing-room-only crowd in Van Munching Hall on Sept. 22, the Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation and Crime (C-BERC) hosted a presentation by Brandon Garrett on Corporate Prosecutions and the Future of “Too Big to Jail.”
Garrett is the Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, and also is the author of Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations. The event was C-BERC’s inaugural Fishlinger Family Lecture.
Garrett’s presentation was followed by a panel discussion featuring expert regulators, scholars, and practitioners exploring what happens when big corporations are criminally charged, drawing from cases like HBSC. The panel highlighted some of the practical difficulties and challenges associated with prosecuting corporate crime cases and talked about whether similar challenges exist for prosecutors pursuing charges against responsible top managers.
The panelists were Dr. Cindy Alexander of the Law and Economics Center at George Mason University; Bruce G. Dubinsky, Managing Director of Duff & Phelps; Professor Michael Greenberger of the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security; and Steve Kroll of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
The discussion was moderated by Professor Sally Simpson, a faculty member in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and director of C-BERC.
Published on Tue, Oct 4, 2016 - 1:21PM