University of Michigan Business Law Expert Argues for New, Updated Legal Approaches to Corporate Crime
March 12, 2021
March 12, 2021
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 12 -- The University of Michigan issued the following Q&A:
U.S. criminal law allows for a corporation to be considered responsible for a crime committed by an employee. That doctrine causes widely recognized issues, particularly a worry that it might be applied too broadly.
Yet Will Thomas, a business law professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, argues in a new paper that the doctrine is also too narrow, maki . . .
U.S. criminal law allows for a corporation to be considered responsible for a crime committed by an employee. That doctrine causes widely recognized issues, particularly a worry that it might be applied too broadly.
Yet Will Thomas, a business law professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, argues in a new paper that the doctrine is also too narrow, maki . . .