so please let's welcome leslie caldwell back to her alma mater. >> thank you. i can say that when i was here none of this was here. it was very different physical plant back then. great to be back at gw. i had a lot of good memories here and it was for me a great legal education and i've always valued it. so hopefully you're all -- those of you who are students are having a great experience. so as the dean said 2 1/2 years ago he was privileged to be named about it president and confirmed by the senate to become the assistant attorney general for the criminal division. many people don't know what the criminal division does. most people know about the u.s. attorney's offices which there are 93 of them and they do mostly focus on crime in their geographic areas. several of them go beyond their geographic areas. one of which is the southern district of new york. i can't resist saying that. but in the criminal division we're not really limited by geography. so we focus not really on geography but on subject matter. so we have 17 sections and they do all sorts of th

one such star graduate is the assistant attorney general for the criminal division leslie caldwell. we're so excited to welcome her pack this afternoon. although our other distinguished guests is not a gw law graduate, she too has a strong connection to the university. i learned this week that her father once coached football at george washington university. yes, we once had a football team and he was a phenomenal coach and after coaching at gw went on to coach in the nfl. so in a way you're part of the gw family so welcome back karen. with that i will hand over the program to my wonderful colleagues our society dean to formally introduce our guests and to moderate the discussion. thank you again and welcome. >> thank you so much for that kind introduction. as you just learned, roger fairfax was a former department of justice lawyer. we are fortunate to have him along with other prosecutors and defense lawyers on our faculty. the experience they have had in practice brings immense benefits to the students here at the george washington university law school. i would like to welcome t

one such star graduate is the assistant attorney general leslie caldwell. we are so proud of her and excited to welcome her back to her alma mater this afternoon. and although our other distinguished guests karen popp is not a gw law graduate she has a strong connection to the university. i learned just this week that her father once coached football at george washington university. yes, gw once had a football team. and by all accounts he was a phenomenal coach and, in fact, after coaching at gw and on to coach in the nfl. so in a way you're part of the gw family so welcome back, karen. with that i will hand over the program to our wonderful colleague susan and her associate dean for international law, to formally introduce our guests had to moderate the discussion. thank you again and welcome. >> thank you so much, dean fairfax for the kind introduction. as you just learned, roger fairfax was a former department justice lawyer. we're fortunate to have him along with other prosecutors and defense lawyers on our faculty. the experience they've had in practic

. >> well, please join me in thanking leslie caldwell for this wonderful presentation, particularly with regard to transparency as to the work they do on a daily basis, but the fact you're here and talking about these important issues, and from the -- thank karen popp for the perspective from practice, and i think that we were able to get a nice balance on the issues and something that i think developed the issues with the perspective from the government and from the private sector. so thank you very much for coming. please join me in thanking the panelists. [ applause ] >> and we will have a reception outside across the hall in the d. kelly lounge. >>> tonight a discussion on school segregation throughout history with investigative journalist nikole hannah-jones. that event hopsed by the columbia journalism school airs tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. now, also this evening a panel look at how the trump administration could approach health care issues and drug pricing. that event hosted by the milken institute in new york on c-span2. >>> this weekend on american history tv on c-span3,

caldwell's observations? >> yeah. we will be talking about a lot today and that's the pilot program. said, i what leslie commend the department of justice for all the efforts being made to be more transparent. because i think that is extremely important to corporations and individuals, anyone that comes under investigation by the department is to have more transparency into what is going on. process by prosecutors. and it is extremely helpful for those out there who are attempting to have effective compliance programs and other decision-making that goes on in corporate america. i also think the pilot program is a good idea and i know that is in large part based on comments today and prior comments from the department is to hold that care out and to make it also then be, have some transparency on the backside as to how those results were achieved. on the other hand, there are some concerns we still have in the private sector in the defense bar and also amongst corporations and individuals and i know we are going to be exploring some of those but one of the concerns is the long arm reach of the us governm

so please let's welcome leslie caldwell back to her alma mater. >> thank you. i can say that when i was here none of this was here. it was very different physical plant back then. great to be back at gw. i had a lot of good memories here and it was for me a great legal education and i've always valued it. so hopefully you're all -- those of you who are students are having a great experience. so as the dean said 2 1/2 years ago he was privileged to be named about it president and confirmed by the senate to become the assistant attorney general for the criminal division. many people don't know what the criminal division does. most people know about the u.s. attorney's offices which there are 93 of them and they do mostly focus on crime in their geographic areas. several of them go beyond their geographic areas. one of which is the southern district of new york. i can't resist saying that. but in the criminal division we're not really limited by geography. so we focus not really on geography but on subject matter. so we have 17 sections and they do all sorts of th