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Jennifer Taub

Jennifer Taub is a law professor and author, focused on promoting transparency and opposing corruption. Her first book, Other People’s Houses (Yale 2014) chronicled the legal acts and omissions that fostered the 2008 financial meltdown and related foreclosure crisis. Her second book, Big Dirty Money (Viking 2020) proposed remedies for the white collar crime epidemic. She has testified as an expert before the United States Senate Banking Committee and a United States House Financial Services Subcommittee.
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How the Law Protects and Promotes Corporate Misconduct

Jennifer Taub
Corporate crimes like fraud continue unabated in the United States. Jennifer Taub defines a chief reason as “accountability theater,” or the propensity of government prosecutors to pursue out-of-court civil settlements rather than criminal trials that, though they might lose them, would publicize the extent of corporate misconduct and better deter future abuse.

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