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Anti-Corruption Law: Lessons For Former Soviet Countries From Azerbaijan, Bryane Michael

Bryane Michael (bryane.michael@stcatz.ox.ac.uk)

This article discusses the problems with the legal framework regulating anti-corruption work in Azerbaijan and other Former Soviet countries. These problems revolve around the excessive reliance on legislative strategies and action plans which can not be translated into ministry-level rule-making (regulation), the insufficient delegation of anti-corruption rule-making authority to executive agencies, and uncoordinated revisions to the criminal, civil and administrative codes. Advice given by donors -- particularly the OECD Network for Transition Economies -- exacerbates these problems. In order to provide a more solid basis for the current anti-corruption legal framework in Azerbaijan (and former Soviet countries like Azerbaijan), anti-corruption …