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Associate Professor of Law
Expertise: securities regulation, criminal law, white collar crime, corporations, federal criminal law
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| Samuel Buell |
Samuel Buell writes and teaches in the area of regulation of behavior in corporations and financial markets. His courses include Criminal Law and Securities Regulation. Buell frequently comments on white collar crime and federal criminal law for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, The News Hour, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, Time Magazine, USA Today, and other media outlets. He has been an op-ed contributor to the Los Angeles Times and has authored a legal commentary blog for the Houston Chronicle.
Buell's publications include "Novel Criminal Fraud," NYU Law Review (forthcoming Dec. 2006) (selected for 2006 Yale-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum); "The Blaming Function of Entity Criminal Liability," Indiana Law Journal (2006); and "Criminal Abortion Revisited," NYU Law Review (student note). His current projects concern criminal sanctions in cases of fraud on the market and the procedural position of the individual in corporate criminal proceedings.
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Education:
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A.B. at Brown University
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J.D. at New York University

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Former Enron prosecutor available to discuss Conrad Black trial
 Looting case will hinge on Hollinger board of directors and possibly Black

March 5,
2007 --
When the Conrad Black trial gets under way in March, the argument will be similar to the case against Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski rather than the cases against Ken Lay or Bernard Ebbers, says Samuel W. Buell, J.D., associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. "This is a case about whether an executive looted his own company, not whether he committed accounting fraud," says Buell, a former Enron prosecutor. "In a looting case, the battle is often over the testimony and credibility of the members of the board of directors." More...

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Defendants, With Assets Frozen, Find It Tough to Hire Attorneys
The Wall Street Journal

April 3,
2009 -- Some defendants with frozen assets are having trouble hiring lawyers. WUSTL law professor Sam Buell, a former federal prosecutor comments.

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UBS Pressed for 52,000 Names in 2nd Inquiry
The New York Times
and 7 others

Feb. 20,
2009 -- A UBS memo, along with dozens of e-mail messages like it, were disclosed on Thursday in a blistering court document filed by the Justice Department, which sought to compel UBS, based in Switzerland, to divulge the identities of 52,000 Americans whom the authorities suspect of using secret offshore accounts at the bank to dodge taxes. WUSTL criminal and securities law professor Samuel Buell, who helped to prosecute Enron, comments.

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Federal judge wants his polygraph used in Houston trial
Houston Chronicle
and 2 others

Nov. 3,
2008 -- WUSTL law professor and former Enron prosecutor Samuel Buell, comments on U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent's Houston trial.

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