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Symposium - Corporate Criminality: Legal, Ethical, and Managerial Implications ruler

For Immediate Release
March 13, 2007

Contact:
Kara Tershel
Elissa Free
(202) 662-9500

Media Advisory

WHAT:

Symposium - "Corporate Criminality: Legal, Ethical, and Managerial Implications"

WHEN:

Thursday, March 15, 2007, 8:45 a.m. - 4:50 p.m.

WHERE:

All events except Thornburgh's address will be held at

Georgetown University Law Center
Hart Auditorium - McDonough Hall

600 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001


Thornburgh's address will be held at

Georgetown University Law Center

Gewirz Student Center - 12th Floor

120 F Street, NW

Washington, D.C. 20001


SCHEDULE:

8:45 - 9:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks
George Daly, Dean, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University

Edwin Meese, Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, Heritage Foundation, and former U.S. Attorney General


9:15 - 10:30 a.m.
Panel I: Why Punish? Exploration of the Justification for and Standard of Corporate Criminal Liability

Moderator: Stephanie Martz, Director, White Collar Crime Project, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Pamela Bucy, Professor, University of Alabama School of Law

Alan Strudler, Professor and Director, Wharton Ethics Program, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

William Laufer, Professor and Director, Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Preet Bharara, Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee

10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Panel II: Regulation Through Criminalization: When Is the Criminal Sanction Appropriate?

Moderator: Brian Walsh, Senior Legal Research Fellow, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, Heritage Foundation

Christine Hurt, Professor, University of Illinois College of Law

Craig Lerner, Professor, George Mason University School of Law

Moin Yahya, Professor, University of Alberta School of Law

Geraldine Szott Moohr, Professor, University of Houston Law Center

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Keynote Luncheon Address

Richard L. Thornburgh, Of Counsel, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP, and former U.S. Attorney General

Introduction: T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

1:45 - 3:00 p.m.

Panel III: The Challenge of Cooperation: Consideration of the Ethical and Managerial Implications of the Organizational Sentencing Guidelines, Thompson Memorandum, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, etc.

Moderator: Ellen Podgor, Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Distance Education and Professor, Stetson University College of Law

Patrick Gnazzo, Chief Compliance Officer, Computer Associates International, Inc.

Julie O'Sullivan, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Michael Elston, Chief of Staff and Counselor, Office of the Deputy Attorney General

3:15 - 4:30 p.m.

Panel IV: Solutions: What Reforms, If Any, Are Necessary?

Moderator: Milton Regan, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

George Terwilliger, Partner, White & Case LLP

Sara Sun Beale, Professor, Duke University School of Law

Michael O'Neill, Chief Counsel and Staff Director, Senate Judiciary Committee

4:30 - 4:50 p.m.

Closing Remarks

Edwin Meese, Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, Heritage Foundation, and former U.S. Attorney General

George Brenkert, Director, Georgetown Business Ethics Institute

NOTE:

The panelists will explore the ramifications of the current campaign against white collar crime.

This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Business Ethics Institute, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Heritage Foundation, U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform and Georgetown Law's American Criminal Law Review.

A Web cast will be available at https://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/.

Media interested in attending should contact Kara Tershel at kat5@law.georgetown.edu.