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Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement

Business Law in the Public Interest

The Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement at NYU School of Law promotes more effective corporate and white-collar enforcement and corporate compliance programs through research and meaningful engagement between the public and private sectors. 

Founded by Faculty Director Jennifer Arlen '86, PCCE shapes optimal enforcement policy, guides companies and institutions in improving their compliance programs, and enhances education in the fields of enforcement and corporate compliance.

Select Speakers

Since 2014, PCCE has served as a venue for important policy speeches from enforcement officials including:

Chair Jay Clayton of the U.S. Securities and Enforcement Commission speaks on September 5, 2018 panel

Jay Clayton

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Jay Clayton speaks at a roundtable discussion on the SEC’s enforcement priorities.

Rod Rosenstein

Rod Rosenstein

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein delivered a keynote address on deterring corporate crime.

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco presents remarks on the Department of Justice’s corporate criminal enforcement policy at NYU School of Law.

Lisa Monaco

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco offered remarks on behalf of the Department of Justice concerning corporate criminal enforcement policy. 

Sally Quillian Yates

Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates announced new DOJ corporate enforcement guidelines (the “Yates Memo”).

Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim delivers a speech

Makan Delrahim

Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim introduced a new model for incentivizing antitrust compliance programs.

Kenneth Blanco, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice gives morning keynote speech at November 9, 2017 conference

Kenneth Blanco

Kenneth Blanco, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, delivered morning keynote at conference on the FCPA and OECD Anti-Bribery Convention.

Scholarship Spotlight

Corporate Crime and Financial Misleading book cover

Research Handbook on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing (edited by Jennifer Arlen) brings together 13 original chapters by leading scholars that examine how to deter corporate misconduct through public enforcement and private interventions. Scholars from a variety of disciplines present both theoretical and empirical analyses of organizational and individual liability for corporate crime, liability for foreign corruption, securities fraud enforcement, compliance, corporate investigations, and whistleblowing.