One area of law that has received enormous attention in the international business community the past several years is the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
The sheer amount of FCPA material out there is staggering.
Just Google “FCPA” and you’ll see what I mean (over 1,200,000 results generated).
For anyone trying to keep up with the latest FCPA developments, it can all get overwhelming.
I mention this because Mike Koehler over at the FCPA Professor blog (h/t Corporate Compliance Insight blog) just posted an extraordinary compendium of FCPA articles published in the latest volume of the Ohio State Law Journal.
The compendium includes the following articles:
Professor Peter Henning (Wayne State University School of Law) presented a keynote titled “Be Careful What You Wish For: Thoughts on a Compliance Defense Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.”
“The Story of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.” by Mike Koehler.
Professor Chow published “The Interplay Between China’s Anti-Bribery and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.”
Carter Stewart (U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Ohio) published “The FCPA Is Just As Relevant and Necessary Today As Thirty-Five Years Ago.”
D. Michael Crites (Dinsmore & Shohl) published “The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act at Thirty-Five: A Practitioner’s Guide.”
Professor Paul Rose (Ohio State) published “State Capitalism and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.” See herefor his previous guest post on the topic titled “Foreign Official and the Missing Link.”
Professor Barbara Black (Cincinnati) published “The SEC and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Fighting Global Corruption Is Not Part of the SEC’s Mission.”
Professor David Hess (Michigan) published “Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Through Corporate Social Responsibility.”
Philip Urofsky (Shearman & Sterling) was the lead author of “How Should We Measure the Effectiveness of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? Don’t Break What Isn’t Broken – The Fallacies of Reform.”
Professor Peter Alldridge (Queen Mary, University of London) published “The U.K. Bribery Act: ‘The Caffeinated Younger Sibling of the FCPA.”
Professor Amy Deen Westbrook (Washburn) published “Double Trouble: Collateral Shareholder Litigation Following Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Investigations.”
Professor Roger Alford (Notre Dame) published “A Broken Windows Theory of International Corruption.”
Professor Eric Chaffee (Dayton) published “The Role of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Other Transnational Anti-Corruption Laws in Preventing or Lessening Future Financial Crisis.”
Professor Michael Van Alstine (Maryland) published “Treaty Double Jeopardy The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention and the FCPA.”
There are two additional articles posted on-line at the Ohio State Law Journal website:
Michael Diamant (Gibson Dunn) was the lead author of “Don’t You Forget About Me: The Continuing Viability of the FCPA’s Facilitating Payments Exception”
Professor Bruce Bean (Michigan State) published “Further to Professor Alldridge’s “Caffeinated” Article: What “Stuff” Did the Professor Have in Mind?“