As we begin to prepare for a full schedule of events in 2024, starting with an event on Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy for Export Controls Violations on January 16, 2024, the NYU School of Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE) is taking a moment to reflect on our busy Fall 2023 program. In this post: our third annual PCCE Directors’ Academy on September 21-22, 2023.

On September 21-22, 2023, PCCE hosted its third annual Directors’ Academy. PCCE’s annual Directors’ Academies provide directors of public companies and for-profit private companies the opportunity to engage directly with C-suite leaders and experienced board members to explore cutting-edge issues with in-depth analysis to enhance directors’ ability to discharge their duties as effectively as possible. The full agenda is available here.

Panels, presentations, and breakout sessions included the following:

Day 1

• Effective Management of the CEO: Experienced Directors Discuss Balancing the Board’s Advisory and Oversight Roles
• Strategies for Board Effectiveness in a Time of Increasing Demands: Board Composition, Structure, and Management
• Implications for Company’s DEI Initiatives of the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Case
• How to Read into the Firm’s Financial Statements and Identify Issues to be Raised with the Audit Committee
• Special Committees: The Lessons Learned
• Governance of the Modern Workforce: DEI, Unionization, Hybrid Work, and Employees’ Expectations of the Firm’s Social Commitments
• ESG: Board Governance of Business, Legal, Reputational, & Political Risk

Day 2

• Director Liability for Legal Risk and Emerging Issues
• Governance of Legal Risk
• Data Privacy & Cybersecurity: What Boards Needs to Know
• AI: Opportunities and Potential Risks
• Crisis Management
• Climate Change Legal Issues Relevant to Directors
• Cybersecurity
• Governance Challenges Arising from Mergers & Acquisitions
• Conversation with a General Counsel and a Chief Compliance Officer