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Peter C. Anderson once served as a federal prosecutor overseeing investigations and business crimes and as the chief ethics and compliance officer for Carnival Corporation.
Faculty Profile Peter C. Anderson
Prevent, detect, respond, correct
Peter C. Anderson is an expert in the evolving compliance industry
Adjunct professor Peter C. Anderson brings deep experience to the MJ and LLM in Compliance & Enterprise Risk Management degree programs. Throughout his career, Anderson tackled compliance issues from many different angles, including as a federal prosecutor overseeing investigations and business crimes; as the chief ethics and compliance officer for Carnival Corporation, one of the largest cruise lines in the world; and as a consultant in private practice.
Below, Anderson shares thoughts on this challenging and exciting industry.
How would you describe this field?
When I started, the legal profession was mostly reactive and focused on responding to trouble and putting out fires. But today, the field of compliance and enterprise risk management is a new and proactive discipline. We think about the underlying or root causes of a violation. Is it technological? Economic? Cultural? A training issue? Accordingly, the program at Loyola is dedicated to educating and training professionals in how to prevent, detect, respond, and correct such violations.
Tell me about your students. Who should consider these programs and career?
I’ll start with who shouldn’t go into compliance, and that’s a person who wants no variety in their work, who wants to do the same thing every day. Or if you’re someone who is hung up on completion, you’re going to be frustrated. Compliance is a continuous endeavor.
But the great thing is that you can enter this field from any background and be successful, as long as you are someone who values collaboration, innovation, and persistence. It’s extremely interdisciplinary—you can see that in the course offerings. The key is to discover what your strengths are (whether they be quantitative or big picture thinking or communications or something else), and determine how they fit into the needs of a compliance program. Regardless of the skillsets, interests, and background of any particular student, there is a place for all of them in this broad profession.
“There’s a lot of potential for creativity in the compliance field, and I think this program does an excellent job of tapping into that.” Peter C. Anderson
What’s it like to be a student in your courses?
My teaching style is very interactive, and I try to avoid becoming a “talking head.” I like to assign documentaries and readings that tell the stories of different compliance crises and challenges, as well as the solutions! We read things they’ll encounter on the job, like Department of Justice policy and guidance documents, as well as internal investigation reports. I keep it very practical, very case-study oriented. There’s a lot of potential for creativity in the compliance field, and I think this program does an excellent job of tapping into that and training future leaders. —Kelsey Schagemann (July 2024)
Adjunct professor Peter C. Anderson brings deep experience to the MJ and LLM in Compliance & Enterprise Risk Management degree programs. Throughout his career, Anderson tackled compliance issues from many different angles, including as a federal prosecutor overseeing investigations and business crimes; as the chief ethics and compliance officer for Carnival Corporation, one of the largest cruise lines in the world; and as a consultant in private practice.
Below, Anderson shares thoughts on this challenging and exciting industry.
How would you describe this field?
When I started, the legal profession was mostly reactive and focused on responding to trouble and putting out fires. But today, the field of compliance and enterprise risk management is a new and proactive discipline. We think about the underlying or root causes of a violation. Is it technological? Economic? Cultural? A training issue? Accordingly, the program at Loyola is dedicated to educating and training professionals in how to prevent, detect, respond, and correct such violations.
Tell me about your students. Who should consider these programs and career?
I’ll start with who shouldn’t go into compliance, and that’s a person who wants no variety in their work, who wants to do the same thing every day. Or if you’re someone who is hung up on completion, you’re going to be frustrated. Compliance is a continuous endeavor.
But the great thing is that you can enter this field from any background and be successful, as long as you are someone who values collaboration, innovation, and persistence. It’s extremely interdisciplinary—you can see that in the course offerings. The key is to discover what your strengths are (whether they be quantitative or big picture thinking or communications or something else), and determine how they fit into the needs of a compliance program. Regardless of the skillsets, interests, and background of any particular student, there is a place for all of them in this broad profession.
What’s it like to be a student in your courses?
My teaching style is very interactive, and I try to avoid becoming a “talking head.” I like to assign documentaries and readings that tell the stories of different compliance crises and challenges, as well as the solutions! We read things they’ll encounter on the job, like Department of Justice policy and guidance documents, as well as internal investigation reports. I keep it very practical, very case-study oriented. There’s a lot of potential for creativity in the compliance field, and I think this program does an excellent job of tapping into that and training future leaders. —Kelsey Schagemann (July 2024)