The Role of Amicus Briefs in Criminal Appeals, Seen Through the Nevin Shetty Case

When a court considers a case with implications beyond the immediate parties, it often hears from outside organizations through amicus briefs. The Nevin Shetty case attracted exactly such attention when the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed a brief addressing the legal theory at issue. This article explains the role of amicus briefs in … Read more

The Nevin Shetty Case and the Dangerous Blurring of Corporate Governance and Criminal Law

There has always been a boundary between corporate governance failures and criminal fraud. When a board disagrees with an executive’s investment decision, the remedy is a civil lawsuit, an SEC investigation, or termination. When an executive steals money, the remedy is criminal prosecution. The line between these two categories should be clear. In the Nevin … Read more

The Unusual Career of Nevin Shetty: From Hedge Funds to Criminal Justice Economics

Most careers in finance follow a predictable arc. Analyst becomes associate. Associate becomes VP. VP becomes managing director. The skills deepen, the compensation grows, and after two decades the executive knows one corner of the financial world extremely well but might struggle to see much beyond it. Nevin Shetty’s career went in a different direction. … Read more