Several scholars have singled out corruption as the bane of the Nigerian society. Indeed, owing to this horrible menace, the country has lost billions of money that could have been utilized for productive development, including: provision of adequate health care, education, jobs, security, good...

Transnational criminal law treaties traditionally dominate the international anticorruption regime; yet, corruption has not considerably decreased since their coming into force. It therefore seems appropriate to broaden the legal perspective: Corruption as a threat to welfare, safety, and...

Increasingly, there is awareness that corruption and human rights are intimately connected. However, the debates and reform proposals on improving corporations’ social performance in these two areas are often treated as separate concerns. This article argues that companies must see combating...

In this essay, I investigate the relationship between corruption and human rights discourses as well as the idea of legitimacy, and argue that the corruption discourse undermines a particular kind of legitimacy by discrediting a particular kind of State. The essay offers a critique of the...

Due to the impact of corruption on corporations’ human rights obligations, this Article argues for a new conceptualization of what it means for a corporation to combat corruption. This new conceptualization results from integrating corporations’ responsibilities to combat corruption with its...

India stands ranked at 94 on the Global Corruption Perception Index, compiled by Transparency International in the year 2013. On the surface, India might be perceived as one of the progressive countries in the sub-continent region, which, in less than 100 years of its Independence from the...

Fostering peace is a core goal of the Olympics and other mega-sporting events. Unfortunately, these sporting events are continually connected to (and often catalyze) human rights violations and corrupt actions that push society toward instability and away from peace. This Article reviews those...