Tina Søreide

Mark Pieth

Presenting the broad spectrum of interdisciplinary academic research on corruption, this essential reference book examines anti-corruption legislation, governance mechanisms, international instruments, and other preventative measures intended to tackle corruption. Including over 100 entries and adopting a comprehensive approach to researching and combating corruption, this Encyclopedia covers the key ideas, concepts, and theories in corruption law.

Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Corruption Law

Kathrin Betz

Die Globalisierung im heutigen Umfang wäre ohne die Seefahrt nicht möglich, doch der Preis ist hoch: Die Seefahrt ist auf Kollisionskurs mit der Umwelt, sie ist nach wie vor gefährlich, die Besatzungen in See- und Binnenschifffahrt arbeiten oft unter prekären Bedingungen. Doch die Schweiz als viertgrösster Reedereistandort Europas will von den beachtlichen Herausforderungen der Schifffahrt kaum etwas wissen. Die Schweiz als wichtige Seefahrtsnation – verstärkt durch die Schiffe unter Kontrolle der hiesigen Rohstoffhändler und auch als Flaggenstaat in der Flusskreuzfahrt – ist in alle Problemfelder der Schifffahrt verwickelt, bis hin zum Abwracken der Seeschiffe auf Gezeitenstränden, das grauenhafte Folgen für Mensch und Umwelt hat. Deshalb ist es dringend, dass die Schweiz sich der Thematik annimmt und in internationalen Gremien ihre Stimme erhebt, um – im Verein mit den grossen Schifffahrtsnationen – die Probleme der Seefahrt anzugehen, statt die Augen zu verschliessen und Problemfirmen ihr Territorium zur Verfügung zu stellen. Kathrin Betz und Mark Pieth rollen in ihrem umfassenden Standardwerk die Geschichte der Schweiz als Seefahrtsnation auf: Sie widmen sich dem Grund für die Attraktivität als Reedereistandort, der Finanzierung und dem Bau von Schiffen, der Arbeit auf See, dem Konflikt mit der Umwelt, der Abwrackung sowie der Rolle der offiziellen Schweiz.

Vom Flaggenzwerg zum Reedereiriesen

Seefahrtsnation Schweiz

Fritz F. Heimann

Corruption undermines nearly all key legal and developmental priorities today, including the effective functioning of democratic institutions and honest elections; environmental protection; human rights and human security; international development programs; and fair competition for globaltrade and investment. This book chronicles the global anticorruption steps taken since the movement advanced after the end of the Cold War. It provides a realistic assessment of the present state of affairs by critically evaluating what existing anticorruption programs and treaties have accomplishedand documenting their shortcomings, while developing an action agenda for the next decade. The authors argue that reformative action is imperative, and the forces of globalization and digital communication will level the playing field and erode the secrecy corruption requires. They define corruption, document its effects, discuss the initiatives that changed public perception, analyze thelessons learned, and then evaluate how to move forward with existing initiatives charting a new path with new, differentiated strategies.

Past Concerns, Present Challenges, and Future Strategies

Confronting Corruption

Development efforts will remain frustrated so long as corrupt leaders continue to steal their countries' wealth and dispose of these ill-gotten gains in foreign jurisdictions. The prevention of such looting, and the recovery of the stolen assets are thus critical development issues and a cornerstone of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (2003) (UNCAC). However, to date experience with asset recovery is limited, and a number of legal and other obstacles continue to impede progress. This is the first comprehensive work on asset recovery, written by renowned practitioners and academics representing different legal systems and countries, all of whom have extensive experience in the asset recovery field. The authors notably discuss the 'success stories' of the past (the recovery of the assets of Sani Abacha, Ferdinand Marcos and Vladimiro Montesinos) and the concrete challenges for the future with regard to search, seizure, confiscation and repatriation of stolen assets. The book also provides perspectives on the role of technical assistance and donors in asset recovery and the likely impact of the UNCAC.

Recovering Stolen Assets

Radha Ivory

With industrialization and globalization, corporations acquired the capacity to influence social life for good or for ill. Yet, corporations are not traditional objects of criminal law. Justified by notions of personal moral guilt, criminal norms have been judged inapplicable to fictional persons, who ‘think’ and ‘act’ through human beings. The expansion of new corporate criminal liability (CCL) laws since the mid-1990s challenges this assumption. Our volume surveys current practice on CCL in 15 civil and common law jurisdictions, exploring the legal conditions for liability, the principles and options for sanctioning, and the procedures for investigating, charging and trying corporate offenders. It considers whether municipal CCL laws are converging around the notion of ‘corporate culture’, and, in any case, the implications of CCL for those charged with keeping corporations, and other legal entities, out of trouble.

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