Money Laundering (Comisky)
Faculty
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| Ian Comisky Adjunct Professor of Law icomisky@foxrothschild.com |
Additional Information
Skills Training
Oral Presentations
Team Projects
Expository Writing
Grading
25% Participation,
75% Paper,
Other (A "practice review/exam" may/will be circulated ahead of Week 14 which, time permitting, may account for up to 10% of the final grade. If due to time constraints, the “practice review/exam” is not circulated, the paper will account for 75% of the grade.)
Yes
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- Class sessions are regularly recorded. If you are absent due to illness or some other unavoidable circumstance, email me and I can send you an email with instructions for accessing the recording for the class session(s) you missed.
- I have asked for volunteers in the class who are willing to take and share their notes on a regular basis with others who are absent due to illness or some other unavoidable circumstance.
- When you are better, please make an appointment to meet with me and I will review/answer questions about what you missed.
Meeting Times/Location
T 4:30PM - 6:30PM
Tanenbaum Hall 253
Category
Seminar
Credits
3.0
The seminar focuses upon the primary U.S. Anti-Money Laundering statutes, 18 U.S.C. § 1956, 18 U.S.C. § 1957, and 18 U.S.C. § 1960, amendments by way of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act and the use of these statutes today. The course will further focus upon the Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”), as amended by the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, and proposed and enacted regulations, including requirements of the Corporate Transparency Act, and emerging requirements for the reporting of virtual currency transactions. The Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 is the most significant change in the BSA regulatory framework in the past fifty years.
The seminar will cover suspicious activity reporting (“whistleblowing”) by banks, broker-dealers, and mutual funds, the proposed extension of this regulatory framework to include virtual currency transactions, and separate proposals to require suspicious activity reporting by accountants and some categories of attorneys. The seminar will discuss the effect these statutes, regulations, guidance, and initiatives have had and continue to have on constitutional and due process rights, the attorney client privilege, as well as privacy rights in the post-9/11 era. The seminar traditionally presents guest speakers, including a federal appellate or district court judge, an assistant United States attorney, Department of Justice attorney, or other government official involved in the prosecution of money laundering or BSA violations, a bank/broker dealer/or mutual fund compliance officer, and/or one or more defense attorneys who concentrate their practice in the anti-money laundering area.
Business and Corporate Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of business and corporate law; Perform legal analysis in the context of business and corporate law; Communicate effectively on topics related to business and corporate law; Demonstrate an understanding of the interconnection between the world of business and finance and that of business and corporate law, and how they affect other areas of law and society.
Constitutional Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of constitutional law; Perform legal analysis in the context of constitutional law; Communicate effectively on topics related to constitutional law; Demonstrate an understanding of constitutional law affects other areas of law.
Courts and the Judicial System Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of both substantive and procedural issues in the operation of our legal system; Perform legal analysis in the context of procedural issues and the judicial process; Communicate effectively on topics related to procedure and the judicial process; Demonstrate an understanding of how procedural issues and the judicial process affect all other area of our legal system.
Criminal Law and Procedure Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of criminal law and procedure; Perform legal analysis in the context of criminal law and procedure; Communicate effectively on topics related to criminal law and procedure; Demonstrate an understanding of the role criminal law and procedure play in society and their impact on other areas of law and society.
Administrative and Regulatory Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of administrative and regulatory law and the administrative process, including the role of statutory authorization and work of administrative agencies; Perform legal analysis in the context of administrative and regulatory law; Communicate effectively on topics related to administrative and regulatory law; Demonstrate an understanding of the role administrative and regulatory law play in our legal system and in society as a whole.
Professional Responsibility and Ethics Learning outcomes: Demonstrate an understanding of how the law affects, and is affected by, the individual course topic; Perform legal analysis in the context of the individual course topic; Communicate effectively on the legal and other aspects of the individual course topic; Demonstrate the ability to use other disciplines to analyze legal issues relevant to the individual course topic, including economics, philosophy, and sociology, as appropriate.