Corruption, Integrity and the Law: Global Regulatory Challenges

ISBN-13: 9781032173979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 332 str.

Nicholas Ryder; Lorenzo Pasculli

Opis

This book provides a unique interdisciplinary assessment of the global anti-corruption legal framework. It gathers top experts in different fields of both the academic and the professional world to analyse legal instruments in the attempt of establishing an interdisciplinary and comparative dialogue between theory and practice.

Spis treści

PART I: Introduction: the global anti-corruption framework;

1 The future of anti-corruption: towards a global system of prevention and justice;
Lorenzo Pasculli and Nicholas Ryder;

PART II: Criminal justice: international and national frameworks;

2 The fight against international corruption: a call for a global approach in corporate criminal liability law and procedure;

Maria Lucia di Bitonto and Gaetano Galluccio Mezio;

3 What role does competition law have to play in the prosecution of financial crime in the UK?;

Diana Johnson;

4 The contrast to corruption in the Italian legal system between repression and prevention;

Debora Provolo;

PART III: The escape from criminal law: deferred prosecutions agreements and financial sanctions;

5 Corruption, regulation and the law: the power not to prosecute under the UK Bribery Act 2010;

Shahrzad Fouladvand;

6 Justice deferred is Justice denied? The Jury’s out;

Axel Palmer;

7 Deferred prosecution agreements and the restorative justice paradigm: justice restored or corporate cop out?;

Darren McStravick;

8 Financial sanctions as a weapon for combatting grand corruption;

Anna Bradshaw;

PART IV: Information as evidence: whistle-blowing;

9 Vulnerabilities, obstacles and risks in reporting financial crimes: conundrum of whistle-blowers;

Alison Lui and Umut Turksen;

10 Keep the canaries singing. Are whistle-blowers in Nigeria adequately protected?;

Alison Lui and Soji Apampa;

PART V: Information as integrity: bank secrecy and non-financial reporting;

11 ‘Follow-ing the money’ ten years on: transparency and the fight against banking secrecy;

Elena Blanco and Miguel J. Arjona-Sánchez;

12 Information, power, and the fight against tax havens;

Stuart Maclennan;

13 The communication of non-financial information according to the Directive 2014/95/EU as an instrument for the promotion of corporate integrity in Europe;

Marco Cristiano Petrassi;

PART VI: Beyond ethical codes: reshaping culture and values;

14 The fight and prevention against corruption: the case of Switzerland and implications for Swiss firms with business activities abroad;

Giang Ly Isenring;

15 The practice of anticorruption and integrity of government. On the moral learning side of the story;

Julien Topal;

16 Ethical integration in EU Law: the prevailing normative theories in EGE opinions;

Matthias Pirs and Markus Frischhut;

O autorze

Nicholas Ryder is a professor in Financial Crime, Head of Research and Head of the Global Crime, Justice and Security Research Group at Bristol Law School, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

Lorenzo Pasculli is Associate Head of School for Research at Coventry Law School and an associate of the Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity at Coventry University, UK. He is also a visiting professor at Nebrija University, Spain.