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Daniel T. Ostas, J.D., Ph.D. Ethics of Corporate Legal Strategy Professor & Harlow Chair in Law & Ethics University of Oklahoma

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Page 1: Ethics of Corporate Legal Strategyciel.iomgeventos.edu.do/Content/Docs/Keynote-2-Daniel--Ostas.pdf · •Daniel T. Ostas, J.D., Ph.D." Ethics of Corporate Legal Strategy! • Professor

• Daniel T. Ostas, J.D., Ph.D."

Ethics of Corporate Legal Strategy!

• Professor & Harlow Chair in Law & Ethics"• University of Oklahoma"

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Definitions & Examples "

Underenforced Laws!

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Price or Prohibition?"

Breach & Pay Strategy!

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Instrumental Normative"

Why People Obey Law?!

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Procedural Pedigree"Substantive Pedigree"

Hierarchy of Legal Obligation !

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Malum in Se"Malum Prohibitum"Civil Disobedience"

Cooperate, Comply, Evade !

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Definitions & Examples"

Legal Loopholes!

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Advocate & Advisor"

ABA Model Rules of Professional

Conduct!

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Predicting Consequences"

Legal Advisor!

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Predicting Consequences"

Economic Advisor!

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Responsibility for the “Quality of Justice”"

Ethics Advisor!

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Ambiguous, Conflicted, Gap-Riddled, Incomplete, Captured"

Regulatory Arbitrage!

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Definition & Scope"

Lobbying!

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History of Thought"

Corporate Social Responsibility!

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Cooperate with the formation, implementation, and reform of business regulations on the local, national and global fronts as those regulations address various corporate stakeholders."

CSR & Corporate Legal Strategy!

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Thank you!!