Corruption & Law
What is the role of the criminal justice system in the fight against corruption? Will strict penalties produce integrity in societies where "corruption” is a response to dysfunctional state institutions? This is not obvious if law enforcers are part of the problem they are supposed to solve. Settlements are now the prominent form of law enforcement reactions against corporations that have paid bribes. These deals are associated with few regulations, little transparency, low predictability – are often seen as a way for corporations to buy their way out of a law enforcement problem. These and related topics attract the attention of the researchers in this group. Research Leader: Tina Søreide. Contact: info@lawtransform.no
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Publications
Structured Settlements for Corruption Offences Towards Global Standards?
February 13, 2019
Author: Abiola Makinwa and Tina Søreide (eds.). In the 40 years since the historic passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, there has been a revolution in …
Good Governance Facades
July 27, 2018
Fashions come and go in the development community. When a policy idea becomes popular, some governments implement a cosmetic variant of the policy. What looks …
Two steps forward, one step backwards: Indonesia’s winding (anti-)corruption journey.
July 27, 2018
Corruption in Asia ranges from the venal rent-seeking of local officials to the million-dollar bribes received by corrupt politicians; from excessive position-related consumption to future …
Regulating Corruption in International Markets: Why Governments Introduce Laws They Fail to Enforce
July 26, 2018
Søreide, Tina, Regulating Corruption in International Markets: Why Governments Introduce Laws They Fail to Enforce (December 12, 2017). The Oxford Handbook on International Economic Governance …
Corruption in state administration
July 26, 2018
Søreide, Tina and Rose-Ackerman, Susan. (2018). Corruption in state administration. In J. Arlen & N. Z. Paige, Research handbook on corporate crime and financial misdealing (pp. …
Projects
Mindful Justice: Aligning Police Practices and State Accountability
October 22, 2024
Collaborators: Center for Legal Resources (Romania), Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (Norway), LawTransform (Norway) The project aims to research and compare legal and forensic practices in …
IBA Anti-Corruption Committee: Structured Criminal Settlements Sub-committee Towards Global Standards in Structured Criminal Settlements for Corruption Offences Project
November 23, 2017
Rationale for Proposed Structured Criminal Settlements Subcommittee Throughout bribery and corruption cases, invariably spanning a number of jurisdictions, the perennial question arises of how, when …
News
LawTransform PhD course 2019
May 3, 2019
LawTransform PhD course 2019 Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change (14- 23 August) Practical information The course combines lectures specifically …
Hvem kontrollerer politikerne?
January 10, 2019
Den siste tiden har nyhetene florert av saker hvor det stilles spørsmål ved norske politikeres integritet og respekt for etiske retningslinjer og regler for reiseregninger, …
Events
Playing with the rules – how extractive industries players pursue illicit practices and what can be done about it?
October 31, 2019
Over the last two decades, several laws and initiatives have been adopted around the world to fight illicit financial flows, but corruption and tax avoidance …
The global expansion of corporate criminal liability: effective enforcement across legal systems
February 4, 2019
Date: 3 April 2019 Time: 12:45-14:00 Venue: Aud Finn Kydland, NHH In cooperation with the Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law at the Norwegian School …