Corruption and Anticorruption: A talk by Professor Matthew Stephenson

On October 30, in celebration of his appointment as the Eli Goldston Professor of Law, Matthew Stephenson '03 gave a talk titled "Corruption and Anticorruption," a primary focus of his research and scholarship at Harvard Law School.

In particular, Stephenson's research focuses on the application of positive political theory to public law, particularly in the areas of administrative procedure, anticorruption, judicial institutions, and separation of powers.

At Harvard Law, Stephenson teaches courses on administrative law, legislation and regulation, anticorruption law, and political economy of public law. He is the editor of the Global Anticorruption Blog, which he launched in 2014 to promote analysis and discussion of the problem of corruption around the world, and to provide a forum for exchanging information and ideas across disciplinary and professional boundaries, fostering rigorous, vigorous, and constructive debate about corruption’s causes, consequences, and potential remedies.

[santi]

Beautiful Speech. Thank you for creating hope

[futurekillerful]

Brilliant speech made by an excellent speaker

[asiaibrahim]

Thanks that topics it's very interested

[mostlymi]

If corruption is self reinforcing, how about finding ways of making anti corruption also self reinforcing? This could be achieved socialy and politically, not in the economic arena where drawbacks of corruption show up.

[rightright]

-Corrupt Public servants r proud to be corrupt...
-in the mindset of corrupt civil servants: brides vrs extorsion, which one is dominant?

[jamesduggan]

If you find yourself shoveling sand against the tide, then you've made a bad career decision. If, OTOH, you are tasked with engineering a seawall you consider its useful life. IRL, the key to combating corruption is convincing marginally corrupt actors that their actions are ethically or morally unjust.

[mfalmog]

Can any scholar of AntiCorruption recommend a book on the topic?

[robertewing]

How can you have law generally available by way of the legal industry? How can you have news generally available by way of the media industry? Business subordinates the law and the news, and government likes it that way. Said of the League of Nations, no direct interest - neither industry has any direct interest in the individual case, so no security there. Dictatorship is thriving, and predatory dictatorship laughs at the League - no direct interest, no collective security, no such thing as law.