Arlen
Jennifer H. Arlen
Law-and-economics scholar of corporate liability, compliance, and enforcement
Official Source Note
NYU School of Law lists Arlen as Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement and the Center for Law, Economics and Organization. Her profile identifies corporate liability, internal controls, compliance, behavioral law and economics, and securities fraud as core research areas.
Arlen is included because her work adapts deterrence theory to organizations, where liability rules affect employee monitoring, self-reporting, cooperation, compliance investment, and the division of sanctions between firms and individual wrongdoers.
Source: NYU School of Law
Relevance to the Archive
Arlen extends deterrence analysis from individual wrongdoing to organizations, where legal rules must account for monitoring, reporting, cooperation, compliance investment, and the allocation of sanctions between firms and agents.
Representative Contributions
- The Potentially Perverse Effects of Corporate Criminal Liability (1994)
- Regulating Corporate Criminal Sanctions (with Cindy Alexander, 1999)
- Corporate Criminal Enforcement in the United States (2020)