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2012

Bribery

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The Russian Federation Joins The Oecd Convention Against Bribery, Andrew B. Spalding Jun 2012

The Russian Federation Joins The Oecd Convention Against Bribery, Andrew B. Spalding

Law Faculty Publications

On April 17, 2012, the Russian Federation joined the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Officials in International Business Transactions (“the Convention”).[1] This is but the latest example of a recent trend among the major emerging markets toward criminalizing the bribing of foreign officials. This Insight will place Russia’s accession in context of the broader effort to establish a global anti-bribery regime.


Four Uncharted Corners Of Anti-Corruption Law: In Search Of Remedies To The Sanctioning Effect, Andrew B. Spalding Jan 2012

Four Uncharted Corners Of Anti-Corruption Law: In Search Of Remedies To The Sanctioning Effect, Andrew B. Spalding

Law Faculty Publications

This Article is the third installment in a long-term research project that examines the effects of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in relation to its underlying policy goals. It first reiterates the various data points showing that enforcement now has the unintended effect of reducing investment in higher-corruption markets. Because this amounts to the withdrawal of capital from developing countries in protest of their political conditions, I call this the "sanctioning effect." The paper then seeks to push the envelope of current anti-bribery debates by exploring connections to four fields of academic inquiry not typically associated with the FCPA. …