Presidential Inauguration Special Issue 2017 (English Edition)

The Emory Corporate Governance and Accountability Review (“ECGAR”) could not let this election cycle slip by without a substantive discussion of at least some of the issues that may be important to Americans, those who will serve as legislators, and the ranks of the new administration. In fulfilling our mandate, ECGAR’s editors sought essays from a broad group of individuals with diverse experiences and perspectives. The group includes doctors, practicing lawyers, public officials, and scholars. The essays in this issue come from those who have had to deal with the harshest tasks of compliance enforcement, ranging from Aloke Chakravarthy who served as the lead prosecutor in the Boston bombing case to Bill Nettles, the former US Attorney for South Carolina, who investigated the Charleston Church shooting. What they have chosen to write about at this point in history—their selection of topics—is truly insightful. Discussions of the environment, global warming, labor and employment, and (by some accounts) our broken healthcare system are within the essays published here. We have not covered all that there is to cover, nor have we heard from all voices that need to be heard. This dialogue is merely the start of a larger conversation. These articles take facts seriously and reject demonizing and name calling, which has served as a substitute for constructive dialogue. And if there is one lesson to be learned from this election, it is that the trajectory of our democracy can be altered at the ballot box by working Americans who are unsatisfied, or indeed angry, with the government’s inability to protect their economic and social well-being.