The City University of Hong Kong School of Law and the Asian Law and Economics Association (AsLEA) are pleased to present the sixth lecture in the Lecture Series in Law and Economics.
This session will feature Professor Jennifer Arlen, New York University School of Law. Professor Arlen’s scholarship focuses on corporate liability, behavioral and experimental law and economics, and medical malpractice. She is the founder and faculty director of the NYU Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement. Arlen served as the president of both the American Law and Economics Association and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (which she co-founded in 2005). A prolific scholar, Arlen has edited three books and has published in leading journals including the Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of Law & Economics, Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Journal of Legal Analysis, Yale Law Journal, Chicago Law Review, NYU Law Review, and the UPenn Law Review.
In this lecture, Prof. Arlen will discuss how governments can best structure corporate criminal enforcement in order to deter corporate crime by large companies. It explains why deterrence can best be achieved by ensuring that companies can never retain the profits from corporate crime, and by imposing large fines on companies that do not self-report, fully cooperate (including by turning over evidence against individual wrongdoers) and remediate. It also discusses the value of whistleblower bounties. The lecture will then compare this regime with the current structure of U.S. enforcement policy and highlight some implications for compliance.
The lecture will take place on February 12, 2026 (Thursday) at 8 pm (HKT) and will be held online via Zoom. To receive the Zoom link, please register here in advance.
For more details about the lecture, please refer to the poster below.