Fall 2024 Fourth issue of The Academy Bulletin. Read on.

In this working paper, Academy friends examine the broad application of Section 1960, the long-armed appendage of the Bank Secrecy Act. Read Here.

What’s in it for the victims when white-collar criminal prosecutions end with fines or orders to disgorge profits but without convictions? Read here.

Spring 2024
Third issue of The Academy Bulletin.
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Fall 2023
Second issue of The Academy Bulletin.
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Fellow Benjamin Gruenstein, and his colleagues Evan Norris and Daniel Barabander challenge the legal foundation of the Tornado Cash indictment by providing an insightful analysis of the Bank Secrecy Act and FinCEN's 2019 guidance, which provides a principle-based rubric for defining money transmission, with a comprehensive and understandable description of the underlying code at issue. Read here. 

Summer 2023
Inaugural issue of The Academy Bulletin.
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Published in collaboration with the Basel Institute on Governance, this comprehensive working paper highlights the dynamic legal landscape of virtual assets in 18 jurisdictions around the world. Fellow Dorothy Siron contributes her detailed research and offers insights based on her experience in asset recovery and fraud.

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The third in a series of joint publications with the Basel Institute looks at the role of asset recovery in tackling illegal wildlife trade. Keith Oliver asks: How do you cut the head off the snake? Read commentary.

The second in a series of joint publications with the Basel Institute looks at the role of public-private partnerships in tackling illegal wildlife trade. See the perspective of Bruce Zagaris on this topic. Read publication.

The first in a series in a series of joint publications with the Basel Institute looks at the impact of illegal wildlife trade on business. See the perspective of Antenor Madruga on this topic. Read commentary.

Fellows of The International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators have surveyed their respective jurisdictions to report how they are coping with the pandemic within the context of each particular situation. Commentary here.

Professor Mark Pieth explains, in his commentary published by "Global Investigations Review", how inadequate compliance standards within gold trading is impacting the industry and miners overall. Read commentary.

Contributing to "Global Investigations Review," Professor Bruce Zagaris explains that while there may be more enforcement tools and actions under FARA, compliance still lacks. Read commentary.

Writing for "Global Investigations Review," Fred Davis highlights the challenges lawyers may face if they ignore local rules when conducting internal investigations abroad. Read publication.