Welcome to The Woody Report, where Washington & Lee School of Law Associate Professor Karen Woody and host Tom Fox discuss issues on white collar crime, compliance issues, international corruption, securities and accounting fraud, and internal corporate…
Embedded explainability is the design choice to build “the why” directly into a system as it operates, rather than bolting on an explanation after the fact. In practical terms, it…
There is a comforting myth circulating in corporate hallways and boardrooms: if we deploy AI across governance, risk, and compliance, the work will shrink. Investigations will move faster. Monitoring will…
Reaching 300 episodes is no small feat in the world of podcasting. It takes vision. It takes discipline. It takes community. Most of all, it takes purpose. The Great Women in…
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) trial of a former coal company executive offers a real-time reminder that FCPA cases are rarely about a single payment. They are about systems; how…
Ethics and Compliance programs are entering 2026 under pressure from every direction at once. Enforcement signals are uneven and often contradictory. Regulatory expectations are evolving without clear glide paths. Boards…
Boards entering 2026 are doing so in an environment defined not by stability, but by volatility. Regulatory priorities are shifting rapidly, geopolitical risk is reshaping markets, technology is accelerating faster…
If there was one clear message coming out of Compliance Week’s January 2026 AI conference, The Leading Edge: Applying AI and Data Analytics in E&C, it was not about tools,…
For more than two decades, corporate compliance programs have been built around one central organizing principle: enforcement. Where regulators go, compliance resources follow. When the Department of Justice prioritizes anticorruption,…
Artificial intelligence governance has officially crossed the threshold from theory to expectation. The Department of Justice has not issued a standalone “AI rulebook,” but it has provided a framework for…
Welcome to our concluding blog post on notable Roman Philosophers and the philosophical underpinnings of modern corporate compliance programs and compliance professionals, focusing on five philosophers from Rome spanning the…
