When receiving an award for his game theory research, Nobel Prize winning economist
Leonid Hurwicz, quoting the 1st century poet Juvenal, asked:" Who guards the guardians?" …

Abstract Non-prosecution agreements (" NPAs") and deferred prosecution agreements ("
DPAs") are popular tools for United States Attorneys' Offices responding to corporate crime …

The increasing use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) to resolve corporate
criminal liability represents an abuse of prosecutorial discretion because DPAs 1) fail to …

The potential for abuse that flows from the use of deferred and non-prosecution agreements
should be addressed by restricting the discretion of individual prosecutors. This Note argues …

Corporate deferred prosecution agreements (DPA) and nonprosecution agreements (NPA)
are on the rise. So are their critics. Despite the other options federal prosecutors have for …

Corporate criminal liability developed as courts struggled to overcome the problem of
assigning criminal blame to fictional entities in a legal system based on the moral …

The default mode of American federal corporate criminal law enforcement today is the
deferred prosecution agreement (" DPA")., These guiltyplea-esque settlements allow …

Corporations play an important role in today's world. Often regarded as" the centerpiece of a
free-market capitalist economy," their presence and influence reach almost every corner of …

In resolving allegations of corporate wrongdoing, the Department of Justice (" DOJ") has a
variety of tools at its disposal. These tools include indictment, negotiated plea agreements …

Corporate fraud cases present prosecutors with a particularly complex mix of considerations
to analyze and ultimately balance in order to appropriately resolve allegations of corporate …