Multinational Corporations

This seminar will examine the problems in achieving accountability of multinational corporations for their conduct at home and overseas. It will be a demanding writing seminar providing students with a closely supervised research and writing experience. Students will have periodic individual meetings with the instructor and will be expected to submit papers of approximately 40 pages of publishable or near-publishable quality. Topics will include: the extra-territorial application of U.S. statutory law (bankruptcy, antitrust, Sarbanes-Oxley); alleged violations of human rights involving forced labor, unsafe working conditions, and environmental abuse, including the Alien Tort Claims Act; the extra-territorial enforcement of American trade sanctions for national security or foreign policy considerations, including the Cuban, Iraqi, and Iranian embargoes of today and the Chinese and Soviet Russian Embargoes of yesteryear; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and international conventions dealing with corporate bribery of public officials; the Arab Boycott Act; international guidelines for corporate conduct (OECD, International Chamber of Commerce, United Nations, International Labor Organization) as well as corporate, industry and reform group codes of conduct and corporate responsibility; and Supreme Court decisions on intra-group attribution of legal rights and duties. Pre/co-requisite: Business Organizations (LAW 605) or the equivalent.

Course Schedule

  • Date: Wednesday 2:00-5:00PM
  • Location: ST8

Course Information

  • Catalog number-Section number: 960-01
  • Course Type: Seminar
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Credits (min/max): 3/3
  • Notes: (1) Papers accepted in satisfaction of the requirements of the seminar will not satisfy the requirements for the Upper Class Writing Requirement . However after the conclusion of the seminar, the instructor will work with a limited number of interested students on revisions of their papers that may satisfy the UCWR. This requires: a paper of an intensive, analytical character pursued through multiple supervised drafts before the final draft to produce substantial paper of high quality. (2) The enrollement limit of this class is 14. 2 seats are reserved for LL.M. students.
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Enrollment

  • Enrollment status: Open
  • Current enrollment/capacity: 7/12
  • Reserve population/capacity: 0/0
  • Waitlist enrollment/capacity: 0/50

Grading

  • Grade basis: Graded
  • Satisifies Writing Requirement: No
  • Exam type: NO EXAM