Book Talk and Discussion: Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime
A conversation with Miriam H. Baer, Vice Dean and Centennial Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
About the Book and Discussion
Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime (Cambridge University Press, 2023) uses real-world examples to explore the pathologies that hamper our ability to understand and respond to white-collar crime. Numerous myths and misinterpretations impede white-collar crime’s lawmaking, enforcement, and discourse, causing it to become overcriminalized and underenforced all at the same time.
Focusing on our federal criminal code and drawing on theories of institutional design and behavioral psychology, Miriam Baer offers a step-by-step framework for improving the way we prohibit, enforce, and speak about white-collar crime. A clearer, streamlined, and subdivided criminal code, she argues, paves the way for more informed and productive deliberation about this form of misconduct.
Please join us before the program for a book signing and reception.
Moderator
Adam Kolber, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Discussants
Samuel Buell, Bernard M. Fishman Distinguished Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
Daniel Richman, Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Andrew Weissmann, Professor of Practice, New York University School of Law and former lead prosecutor in Robert S. Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office
About the Author
Miriam H. Baer is the Vice Dean and Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. Vice Dean Baer is also an Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Business Law and Regulation. During the 2021-22 academic year, she was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, where she worked on portions of her book.
In addition to writing and teaching at the intersection of business and criminal law, Baer is an elected member of the American Law Institute, where she served as an Adviser on the ALI’s Principles of the Law of Compliance, Enforcement and Risk Management. Before academia, Dean Baer was an assistant general counsel for compliance with Verizon and an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where she eventually focused on prosecutions of health care fraud, tax fraud, and money-laundering, among other crimes.
Baer’s most recent publications, Corporate Compliance’s Achilles Heel, 78 Bus. Lawyer 783 (2023), and Square Peg Frauds, 118 NW L. Rev. 1 (2023), reflect her dual interests in corporate compliance and federal criminal law’s enforcement and interpretation.
Please RSVP by Thursday, Oct. 12.
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