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This specialization is for mid-career professionals in business, compliance, HR, product, and other non-legal roles who need to understand how the law shapes ethical conduct at work. Across three courses from the University of Illinois College of Law, you will study how to build and measure an effective compliance program using the DOJ's Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs, manage conflicts of interest and directors' fiduciary duties, recognize bribery risk under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and communicate legal risk and design compliance training that changes behavior. These skills matter because regulators now judge whether a program works in practice, not only whether it exists.

Syllabus

Course 1: Ethics & Compliance Law: Culture, Trust, & Program Design
Course 2: Ethics & Compliance Law: Conflicts of Interest, Anti-Bribery
Course 3: Ethics & Compliance Law: Turning Rules into Business Action

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This course is for legal, compliance, and business professionals who want to turn legal knowledge into practical action. You will begin by learning how to communicate legal risk to executives, lead with business impact, and offer compliant alternatives instead of a flat no. You will then learn how to convert dense statutes, such as the FCPA accounting provisions, into system-enforced controls and binary checklists. Finally, you will study how to design compliance training using scenarios, case studies, adult learning research, and risk-based tailoring, evaluate it with the Kirkpatrick framework, and build your own training segment.
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This course is for professionals who build, manage, or advise on corporate ethics and compliance programs. You will begin with the culture, trust, and behavioral science that determine whether a program works in practice, including how regulators evaluate culture. You will then study the DOJ's framework for effective compliance programs, covering risk assessment, third-party due diligence, the code of conduct, training, and reporting channels. Finally, you will learn how to measure whether a program works through compliance function independence, monitoring, auditing, and continuous improvement.
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This course is for professionals and students who advise on or manage corporate governance and anti-corruption risk. You will begin with conflicts of interest, including how to define them, who can have them, and the fiduciary duties of loyalty and care that directors owe. You will then assess director independence, evaluate self-dealing transactions under the fairness test, manage dual fiduciary conflicts, and apply these tools to a case study and a conflict management plan. Finally, you will study the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, including who is covered, how enforcement works, the elements of an anti-bribery violation, third-party red flags, and the available exceptions and defenses.