Spring 2023

7318 WRS: Corporate Criminal Liability - GILCHRIST- 23896

Professor(s): Gregory Gilchrist (VISITING)

Credits: 3

Course Areas: Business and Commercial Law
Criminal Law

Time: 9:00a-10:30a TTH Location: 207

Course Outline: This seminar will explore issues surrounding holding corporations criminally accountable. It will discuss the basic rules of corporate criminal liability, the principles guiding the decision whether to prosecute a corporation, and the role of culture in corporate wrongdoing. It will ask students to consider the costs and benefits of, and rationales for, applying criminal law to non-persons, and to consider the role of criminal law more generally.

Course Syllabus: Syllabus

Course Notes: (Synchronous Online) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. After student registration opens, there may be instruction mode changes to this course up through two weeks before the first day of classes for the term, but notice of such changes will be sent to then-registered students. Contrary to the UH information, some student materials may not be available online, such as an assigned casebook. A physical classroom may be assigned for this course to give students a location in the Law Center to join the virtual class sessions. If the course has a final examination, the final and any other assessment for the course, such as a mid-term exam, will be conducted without the need to physically come to the Law Center, such as, for example, via the EBB portal as a take home exam or under remote proctoring.

Quota=12.

For more information about Professor Gilchrist please see:
https://www.utoledo.edu/law/faculty/fulltime/gilchrist.html

Prerequisites:

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Final Exam Schedule:

This course will have:
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Paper:

Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: Yes

Experiential Course Type: No

Bar Course: No

DistanceEd ABA: Yes

Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)

Course Materials

No book required for this course

Course Materials: Professor will distribute materials, see details listed on syllabus