This article examines deferred and non-prosecution agreements entered into between corporations and the Department of Justice (DOJ) through the lens of contract policing theory. It adds a new dimension to the contractual law now applicable to plea bargains and proffer agreements by suggesting key provisions that should be prohibited in deferred prosecution agreements. Three provisions common to many deferred prosecution agreements, or used by the government as leverage to secure a deferred prosecution agreement, are of particular interest here. These are: (1) the requirement of a corporation to waive its attorney-client privilege; (2) the determination of a breach of the agreement being within the sole province of the government; and (3) the provision that corporations not abide by previously negotiated contract terms that allow the corporation to pay the attorney fees of corporate employees. Specifically, this article examines the viability of specific provisions within these agreements when matched up against contract policing principles such as duress and unconscionability. This article concludes that corporations are deprived of basic contract rights as a result of the over-powering prosecutorial power used in reaching these agreements.

Laws Apply at Sea, Supreme Court Rules was the Washington Post headline for a story reporting the Supreme Court's November 13, 1922 decision of United States v. Bowman. In 1922, America had not yet imagined a globalized world where a local Washington D.C. phone call might be answered in New Delhi and where the notion of Americans making clothes and forging steel was becoming quaint and antiquated. Yet in the Bowman decision, the Court laid the groundwork for a twenty-first century defined by global commerce and crime without borders. Today, the Bowman decision receives relatively little attention. When it is cited, it is often misread by lower courts. But as this new century unfolds, Bowman is likely to be seen as a central decision in the evolution of international criminal jurisdiction. It is time to shine a new light on Bowman-a criminal procedure decision that has long been underrated and misunderstood.