Harry Cassin
Publisher and Editor
Andy Spalding
Senior Editor
Jessica Tillipman
Senior Editor
Bill Steinman
Senior Editor
Richard L. Cassin
Editor at Large
Elizabeth K. Spahn
Editor Emeritus
Cody Worthington
Contributing Editor
Julie DiMauro
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Thomas Fox
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Marc Alain Bohn
Contributing Editor
Bill Waite
Contributing Editor
Shruti J. Shah
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Russell A. Stamets
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Richard Bistrong
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Eric Carlson
Contributing Editor
People ask us why there’s so much going on with the FCPA and other anti-corruption laws right now? What’s changed? they want to know. And what’s coming?
Here’s what we tell them:
Human rights.… Continue Reading
The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of VirginiaThe Miller Center of Public Affairs [at the University of Virginia] has a long tradition of luring influential people to speak to engaged citizens, but this genteel practice degenerated on Friday, March 19, at an appearance by the lawyer who wrote the infamous “torture memos” that the Bush Administration used to justify waterboarding terrorist suspects.… Continue Reading
Last week we heard from Washington, D.C. lawyer and former aid worker Stephanie Connor. She disagreed with some comments Andy Spalding, left, has made in this space. Andy’s a lawyer on a year-long Fulbright Research Grant in Mumbai, India.… Continue Reading
Lawyer and Fulbright Scholar Andy Spalding: The idea that deterring bribery must always be good is too simple.Yesterday’s post about corruption’s positive influence in poor, unfree countries brought the following comment from Andy Spalding.… Continue Reading
Profs Art Carden of Rhodes College and Lisa Verdon of Florida State, both economists, asked: When is corruption bad for economic growth? When is corruption good for economic growth? (It wouldn’t occur to us to ask the second question; that’s why we read what smart people have to say.)… Continue Reading
Elizabeth Spahn (left), a professor at the New England School of Law, stopped by this week. She left a comment about Andy Spalding’s latest post. In it, she cited her recent article that asks: Why is there so little legal scholarship regarding international bribery?… Continue Reading
With so much to lose by going to trial, how many organizations and people will plead guilty to white collar crimes they didn’t commit? Ellen Podgor (left) of Stetson University College of Law and the White Collar Crime Prof Blog asks that question in her latest essay, “White Collar Innocence: Irrelevant in the High Stakes Risk Game.”… Continue Reading
The first time we heard from Andy Spalding (left), a lawyer on a year-long Fulbright Research Grant in Mumbai, India, he floored us with the idea that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act causes corruption and hurts poor people.… Continue Reading
In September 1977, the U.S. House of Representatives finished debating a bill designated as H.R. 3815. Its working title was the Unlawful Corporate Payments Act of 1977, or UCPA. The bill was a response to a huge scandal.… Continue Reading
British firm Mabey & Johnson Ltd was sentenced last week by an English court for overseas corruption and violations of the U.N.’s oil-for-food program. The bridge-building specialist will pay £6.6 million in criminal fines and related assessments.… Continue Reading
Evan Osnos’ Letter from China in last week’s New Yorker included this excerpt from a piece circulating in China (in Chinese only) about the violence in Xinjiang. It’s attributed to Zhong Dajun, described as a prominent economic consultant and former editor at the China Economic Times:
… Continue ReadingThis problem arises from the corruption of the government.
Whoa. Did that guy just say the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act causes corruption and hurts poor people? What kind of person would talk that way? Doesn’t he know how the FCPA spreads American business ethics to the four corners of the planet?… Continue Reading
