LAW 963LEC - Law of GRC and Whistleblowing

This two-credit course will examine the law of corporate governance, risk management, and compliance (commonly referred to as GRC) as a critical means of improving the ethics of business organizations. As a relatively new and growing topic in American legal education, the law of GRC considers the rules, regulations, and internal business practices that, as a whole, ensure effective corporate functioning along with ethical compliance and the enhancement of social welfare. GRC will be studied from the specific perspective of the legal system and the legal profession while considering the central role of attorneys in this context. This course will place special emphasis on the ever-popular phenomenon of whistleblowing, an increasingly important tool for ensuring compliance. The protections that federal statutes offer corporate whistleblowers will be examined, as well as the valuable role that whistleblowers play in GRC and in today’s society.

Credits: 2