Over the course of this semester, students will encounter often outlandish-but very

real-tales of those who commit financial crimes using many ruses, including

fraudulent shell companies and existing front companies. Regardless of their

techniques and schemes, one theme is prevalent: to investigate and prosecute these

crimes, you must combine puzzle solving skills, organizational techniques that allows

you to categorize and analyze information, research abilities and legal creativity.

To effectively build prosecutions against complex criminal activity, investigators

combine creative investigative strategies that work within the confines of the law,

often working closely with attorneys. These matters may arise in challenging

circumstances, which is very often the situation in the investigation of financial

crimes, regardless of whether the cases are brought through criminal or civil

enforcement.

One of my goals in this course is to provide students with a strong foundation to

allow them to understand the relevant legal and other governance principles

applicable to global financial crime and then apply what is learned about identifying,

investigating and combating those activities.

In this course, we will explore multi-faceted efforts used to protect the financial

integrity of private businesses and organizations from global financial crime. We will

focus on regulatory, investigative (by state actors and non-government investigative

bodies) and legal aspects of compliance with applicable laws and regulations. We will

review corporate governance, as well as US and international investigative and

prosecutorial agencies. We will also discuss the applicable judicial systems and laws.

We will also spend time considering the ethical and moral implications of the

underlying crimes, the purported harms, and the approaches used to prevent, mitigate

and punish the criminal activity.