Fall 2026
5297 FCPA Compliance & Global Risk - ANDRADE- 25995
Professor(s):
Diego Andrade (ADJUNCT)
Credits: 2
Course Areas: International Law
Business and Commercial Law
Time: 7:30p-9:30p M Location:
Course Outline: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is a key legal, compliance and ethics concern for business organizations conducting international trade in the global marketplace and across a variety of industry sectors. This course is a comprehensive study of FCPA compliance, FCPA legal and policy issues, FCPA enforcement, agency guidance, and risk mitigation strategies ingrained in good corporate citizenship. You will gain functional insights and understand the dynamics of the FCPA, its statutory text, legislative history, judicial decisions, and a comparison of the FCPA to similar sources from other nations and international organizations.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Quota=20.
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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: “Strategies for Minimizing Risk Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Related Laws,” Mike Koehler (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) (ISBN: 9781788114929)