This chapter focuses on private firms' compliance with norms concerning transnational bribery. It begins with an overview of the regulatory context and obstacles to effective enforcement norms against transnational bribery. It then reviews how compliance is defined, how it ought to be defined,...

This article explains why states in which bribe payers are located (payor states) criminalize transnational bribery. It suggests that these initiatives can enable selfinterested payor states to improve the terms upon which their nationals obtain the services of foreign public officials. Although...

We examine whether the parties to international commercial arbitration ought to have access to discovery through the federal courts of the United States. 28 U.S.C § 1782 permits U.S. courts to compel the exchange of information “for use in a proceeding in a foreign or international...

The use of indicators is a prominent feature of contemporary global governance. Indicators are produced by organizations ranging from public actors such as the World Bank or the US State Department, to NGOs such as Freedom House, to hybrid entities such as the Global Fund, to private sector...

What role do foreign institutions play in combating political corruption in developing countries? This chapter begins by describing the recently developed transnational anti-corruption regime, which encompasses legal instruments ranging from the dedicated multilateral agreements sponsored by the...

What role should for-profit organizations play in governing commercial transactions? Recent scholarship on the privatization of commercial law has advocated expanding the role of for-profits. This essay tests the merits of that proposal in a context where the case for relying on for-profits seem...