Professor John Coffee Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Anti-Fraud Group

New York, June 15, 2011—Columbia Law School Professor John C. Coffee has received a lifetime achievement award from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners for his authoritative scholarship on corporate fraud.

 

Coffee, the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, received the Cressey Award, the group’s highest honor, and recognizes a person’s contribution to the deterrence and detection of fraud.

 

The award is named after the late Donald Cressey, a noted criminologist and leading expert and researcher on fraud.

 

“If Don Cressey were still alive, he would be honored by this year’s recipient. So am I,” ACFE founder and Chairman Joseph T. Wells said, before presenting the award.

 

Coffee, who is also director of the Law School’s Center on Corporate Governance, received the award Monday at the ACFE’s annual meeting in San Diego. He was cited by Wells for testifying before Congress during the drafting of many of the nation’s most-important securities laws, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Act, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act.

 

The ACFE is the world’s largest organization devoted to reducing business fraud, and provides anti-fraud training and education.

 

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