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From:Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 2, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI INTRODUCTION On 16 December 1996 the UN adopted the United Nations Declaration against Corruption and Bribery in International Commercial Transactions. (1) The Declaration committed UN members to criminalise...
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From:Air Force Law Review (Vol. 70) Peer-ReviewedI. INTRODUCTION When Parliament passed the U.K. Bribery Act 2010, the Act was prompted in no small part by defense industry corruption. (1) A Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation of BAE Systems (a major British...
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From:Georgetown Journal of International Law (Vol. 51, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe impact of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention ("the Convention") has been substantial, but foreign bribery and corrupt conduct remain significant global challenges. This Article introduces the theoretical framework of...
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From:Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFrom ancient times, governments have prohibited bribery because of its negative implications in society and business transactions. The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the work of the Organization for Economic...
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From:Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 51, Issue 2)Congress enacted the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in the 1970s to address the rampant bribery of foreign officials by US companies. Because that resulted in a competitive disadvantage to US companies in the...
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From:Georgetown Law Journal (Vol. 107, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedResponsible for nearly seventy-five percent of the world's foreign anti-bribery sanctions imposed since the turn of the century, Germany and the United States have emerged as global leaders in the fight against...
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From:Risk Management (Vol. 66, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCorruption scandals are a common occurrence in many countries of the Europe-Caucasus-Asia (ECA) region, which consists of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania,...
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From:Ivey Business Journal (Vol. 65, Issue 1)On Dec. 17, 1997, the 29 member nations of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and five other countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile and Slovakia), signed the Convention on...
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From:Georgetown Journal of International Law (Vol. 41, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn this article I examine the relationship between corruption and foreign aid-specifically, development aid intended to alleviate poverty by fostering economic growth. More than $2.5 trillion has been expended over the...
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From:Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe article provides a tour d'horizon of the current international legal framework against corruption, which has made substantial progress over the last two decades. Nevertheless, both the legal framework and its...
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From:Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 46, Issue 5)ABSTRACT The United States has been combating the bribery of foreign officials for 35 years through the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Both domestic and international prosecutions for bribery remained almost...
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From:American Criminal Law Review (Vol. 31, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCriminal federal legislation intended to curb corrupt practices by public officials includes the Conflicts of Interest Act and the Bribery and Graft Act. Making a claim under the Bribery and Graft Act requires showing a...
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From:Duke Law Journal (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Because the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) can be used to regulate conduct that has but a tangential connection to the United States, the statute exemplifies the potential difficulties of applying U.S....
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From:Strategic Finance (Vol. 93, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedRooting out shady business deals is becoming big business these days. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) together have stepped up their investigations of...
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From:Business Economics (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article reviews common reasons why multinational firms have given questionable payments to foreign officials, noting that unsavory business practices have been extremely difficult to change. In-depth interviews...
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From:Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed4 The Scope of Corrupt Acts Covered by the International Anti-Corruption Instruments The one type of corruption that all international anti-corruption treaties have in common is the bribery of foreign public...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 26, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe UK Bribery Act 2010, which contains some of the toughest anti-corruption rules in the world, is proving to be a source of confusion for many nurses. The legislation, which came into force in July, outlaws any...
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From:Law and Contemporary Problems (Vol. 80, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI INTRODUCTION In a brief couple of decades, America's enforcement of its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)--civilly by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and criminally by the Department of Justice...
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From:Georgetown Journal of International Law (Vol. 41, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article argues that current international anti-corruption efforts understand corruption through what is termed the individual actor paradigm, focusing on the prosecution or sanctioning of individuals involved in...
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From:Business Lawyer (Vol. 63, Issue 4)Despite the marked increase in high-profile Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") enforcement activity, it remains unsettled whether the FCPA's definition of "foreign official" includes employees of foreign companies...