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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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What Will Senate Hearings Mean for Gonzales?
NPR - Talk Of The Nation
April 24,
2007 -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced tough questions during the Senate Judiciary Committee over his role in the firing of eight federal prosecutors.
WUSTL law professor Samuel Buell, who is a former Enron prosecutor, was one of the experts speaking in this broadcast.
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Gonzales admits errors in firing U.S. attorneys
NPR - All Things Considered
March 14,
2007 -- Transcript of the March 13 program on the controversial firing of U.S. attorneys. The transcript includes comments by U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Senator Charles Schumer, WUSTL law professor Samuel Buell, and NPR's Ari Shapiro.
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Charges filed in HP spying scandal
NPR Marketplace
Oct. 5,
2006 -- California's attorney general today filed criminal charges against former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn and four others involved in the corporate spying scandal.
WUSTL law professor Samuel Buell comments on the case.
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