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How to make an international treaty work

In this lecture, corruption expert Mark Pieth talks about his experiences with the implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention.

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Mark Pieth
Professor of Criminal Law at Basel University and
Chairman of the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions

The OECD Convention against Corruption needs to be understood in a highly competitive context on exporters. So far, all member states have drafted laws but only few really apply them. It is a challenge for an international organization to secure implementation and application of a criminalization treaty with soft law means (monitoring). The presentation will give examples of these difficulties and put them in a wider context.

Mark Pieth is a Professor of Criminal Law at Basel University and Chairman of the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions. He has published extensively in the fields of economic and organised crime, money laundering, corruption, sentencing and criminal procedure.

He was also a member of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), Head of Section of Economic and Organised Crime at Swiss Ministry of Justice & Police, member of Chemical Action Task Force on Precursor Chemicals, Chairman, UN Intergovernmental Expert Group Commission to determine the extent of illicit trafficking in drugs.

The lecture is free and open to all!