Elizabeth Spahn | Editor Emeritus
Elizabeth K. Spahn is is a contributing editor of the FCPA Blog.
She served as professor of law at New England Law | Boston from 1978 until 2014 where she taught anti-corruption law, constitutional law, first amendment law and employment law. She is currently Professor of Law Emerita.
She spent eighteen months as a Fulbright professor, lecturing on American constitutional law and employment law at Peking University Law School and the Beijing Foreign Studies University in China during 1999–2000. In 2005, she received a Fulbright senior specialist grant to lecture in Chongqing, China.
She has written and spoken extensively on international bribery, corruption, and money laundering, and on international women’s issues and on the development of Chinese law.
Her work has been featured in the Virginia Journal of International Law, Georgetown Journal of International Law, the Hofstra Law Review, the Minnesota Journal of International Law, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, the American University Law Review, and the New England Law Review, among others, available from SSRN here.
Recent Posts
Repeal the Facilitation Payment Loophole
The Walmart de Mexico case highlights the dangers of the facilitation payment loophole in the FCPA. Hiding bribes inside this U.S. loophole is no longer a legally sound strategy in the global enforcement environment.
Repeal Not The FCPA (But Change The Business Model)
One foreign businessman was shot twice in the head by a “krysha” (bribe)-seeking Russian gang. The safety of his own children was threatened by a gang member waving photographs of them going to school, according to Tim Worstall in his Forbes article arguing for repeal of anti-bribery laws.
‘So What?’ Bribes Destroy Market Capitalism. That’s what.
Tim Worstall, contributor to Forbes and Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute in London, said out loud what some others still think and say privately. Writing about the recent Walmart Mexico scandal, Worstall said “So What?”
Amend The FCPA Or Leave It Alone? Game On
A powerful, detailed rebuttal to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s proposals to amend the U.S. FCPA launched this month. Professorial powerhouses David Kennedy (Harvard Law School) and Dan Danielsen (Northeastern School of Law) issued their 84 page analysis, Busting Bribery: Sustaining the Global Momentum of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.