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Extraterritoriality and International Bribery

Branislav Hock
Release date:11 September 2019
Language:English
Pages:272
ISBN:9780429023347
Publisher:Routledge
Price:£96.00

Extraterritoriality and International Bribery presents a collective action perspective to explain how extraterritoriality functions and assess when, and to what extent, extraterritoriality is effective. A collective action perspective provides a new account of foreign anti-bribery laws and their extraterritorial enforcement that draws on theories discussed in the field of economic governance. Within this framework, the book offers an intensive analysis of US foreign anti-bribery law such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), international law as it emanates from the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and comparative insights into UK law and German law. To test the theory in practice, the book provides a unique data set of more than 40 foreign anti-bribery enforcement actions conducted by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and other examples from comparative jurisdictions.

Extraterritoriality and International Bribery is ideal reading for academics and students with an interest in global governance, economic crime, criminology, and law and economics, as well as practitioners concerned with foreign anti-bribery enforcement, including compliance officers, lawyers, investigating and prosecuting authorities, and business leaders. The book also discusses governance alternatives existing outside international anti-bribery law and offers policy and legal reforms proposals. The book suggests a decentralized enforcement model with the delegation of some enforcement tasks to an external body as the most appropriate governance alternative.

Branislav Hock

Dr. Branislav Hock is a Lecturer in Anti-Fraud at the Institute for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth. He has research experience in transnational economic crime, particularly in the area of ​​international bribery and corruption, as well as interests in compliance and economic governance. Dr. Hock is a member of the Tilburg Legal and Economic Center (TILEC), where he works as a researcher and holds a PhD in anti-corruption law. He worked for the office of a Dutch member of the European Court of Auditors. He is co-founder of European Compliance Center.