University of Miami School of Law has expertise in both business law and international law, and is one of the only law schools in the U.S. to brings national and international practitioners and scholars to teach unique, innovative short courses (1-2 weeks) in their fields of expertise.
One such short course that launched in spring of 2021 - "Compliance Challenges in Emerging Market" - explores how compliance is a business issue with international as well as domestic aspects.
Legal Benchmarks and Concrete Scenarios from Europe and Asia
Students in the class learned about legal benchmarks that commonly create compliance risks for companies doing business in emerging markets, including anti-corruption and anti-money laundering laws, financial reporting and disclosure requirements, and minority shareholder protections.
With examples from emerging Europe and Asia, the course explored varied business cultures and environments and consider how different ways of doing business can aggravate compliance risks. Students learned to recognize clues of potential compliance pitfalls and business risk in financial disclosures and other commonly available corporate information.
In addition, the class used tools including the Corruption Perceptions Index, the World Bank's Doing Business Index, and country-level analytical reports.
Professor with Direct Experience
Law students had an invaluable opportunity to learn about issues in compliance from Jarrett Decker who has high-level experience in helping countries to improve their laws, institutions, and practices affecting financial transparency, detection of financial misconduct, governance, financial reporting, accounting, auditing, and internal controls.
Decker currently works as a consultant advising on anti-money laundering (AML), anti-corruption, financial reporting, governance, and internal controls for the Asian Development Bank and World Bank. He was previously the Head of the Centre for Financial Reporting Reforms of the World Bank and Deputy Director and Chief Trial Counsel for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
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