Kathleen Clark, an expert on whistleblowing and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, is available to discuss the recent whistleblower award under Dodd-Frank.
On Wednesday, the SEC made its second ever whistleblower award under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act on Wednesday. Three separate unnamed whistleblowers will each receive 5% of the sanctions the SEC obtains in its enforcement action against Andrey Hicks and Locust Offshore Management for securities fraud. (The court imposed more than $5 million in civil penalties in this case.)
The SEC made its first whistleblower award in August of 2012 and is expected to issue an increasing number of these awards, having received more than 3,000 whistleblower tips in its first year of operation. The SEC award can be found here: http://www.sec.gov/rules/other/2013/34-69749.pdf
More bio information for Clark:Kathleen Clark teaches and writes about government ethics, national security law, legal ethics, and whistleblowing.
Clark co-authored a Washington Post op-ed about the Justice Department torture memo, and later expanded that analysis into Congressional testimony and a law review article. That article has been featured in two legal ethics casebooks and a public administration anthology, and was cited in a Justice Department Office of Professional Responsibility report about the torture memo.
Professor Clark created and taught for 13 years a course on governmental ethics as part of the Congressional & Administrative Law Program. She also created a course on comparative whistleblowing, which she taught at Utrecht University. A member of the American Law Institute (ALI), she is an advisor to the ALI’s Project on Principles of Government Ethics, a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States, and past chair of the National Security Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools.
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