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Incorporating Generative Artificial Intelligence into the Practice of Law: Utilizing Generative AI within the Framework of the California Rules of Professional Conduct
Turning a Blind Eye: The United States\u27 Failure to Fill In Whistleblower Policy Gaps Amid Global Reform
Reframing Compliance for a Polarized World
Corporate compliance relies on an intricate network of individuals and organizations to monitor and report wrongdoing. Compliance improves our collective well-being by curbing corporate misconduct and by facilitating the freer flow of information.Despite notable failures, compliance has thrived over the past three decades, becoming a well-respected element of corporate governance. Now, however, compliance faces a new challenge, as polarization has become the norm in American life. Political parties have grown more ideologically homogeneous, and politicians embrace more extreme variations of the positions they supported just a few years ago. Partisan thinking has moved beyond discrete political debates, spreading to the places where people live, socialize, and work. As it has done so, it has magnified hostility and tribalism.Networks create value when they diffuse information promptly and efficiently. Polarization damages compliance’s relational nodes and undermines the critical thinking and risk-assessment skills so crucial to its long-term success. Accordingly, if the compliance network is to survive, it must reorganize and reframe itself for a more polarized world. This Article problematizes polarization’s impact on compliance and then pivots to consider compliance’s best strategies for withstanding and responding to polarization’s formidable challenges. Some of compliance’s best options are already well known; others will seem surprising. All are deserving of our consideration