Corporate Justice - LAW 6148

Credits Hours: 1

This course will explore corporate responsibility in the context of corporate justice. While there are other programs that have attempted to capitalize on the concept of CSR, this program will be unique in that our primary purpose is to facilitate a rigorous classroom experience that will adequately prepare each student, with the necessary tools and legal knowledge, to engineer corporate social change from a well-informed legal vantage point, or what we call Corporate Justice. Moreover, this course will provide a comprehensive overview of the historical foundations of Corporate Justice and how it can be used as a tool for legal activism. In this course we will further explore the following issues: foundational aspects of corporate governance; how issues of gender and racial diversity affect the corporate decision-making processes; the causes and effects of the financial crisis; regulation of credit default swaps and other derivative instruments; director/officer fiduciary duties; the Dodd-Frank Act; the prison industrial complex; and finally, we will explore the impact and effect of social movements like the “Occupy Wall Street Movement” on financial reform.

Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Policy and Perspectives Requirement
Practice Area: Business & Commercial