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.
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[@primozbenedicto3501]

Great professor

[@robertwnorrisii9143]

Right on time. Thank you.

[@tmnvanderberg]

6:20 talk starts

[@mfalmog]

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

[@asiaibrahim3034]

Thanks that topics it's very interested

[@futurekillerful]

Brilliant speech made by an excellent speaker

[@mostlymi9963]

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.

[@santi3276]

Beautiful Speech. Thank you for creating hope

[@jamesduggan7200]

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.

[@jamesduggan7200]

@@HerMetabolism Thx for the tip but I fight hard against the "see more" button. If I can't fit in without running over, I rephrase.

[@jamesduggan7200]

@@HerMetabolism I'm story but i can't follow you.

[@rightright6582]

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

[@robertewing3114]

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.

[@maxheadrom3088]

Not all media is corporate and not all legal professionals are in it for the money. Your point is important, though - a bit excessive in my opinion, though. In Brazil - where Prof. Stephenson has a former student who worked as a Federal Prosecutor, a law prohibiting people with a conviction to run for elected offices was proposed by the population through the International Transparency and was aproved because of pressure from the population. The US, however, is whole new can of worms ... Dune worms, btw.

[@robertewing3114]

@@maxheadrom3088 The point really is that the legal profession do not allow the public evolve the law, they reserve it all for themselves and the media defers to their actions. If law truly existed we would hear of evolution of law by way of the public challenging the failures of the profession. The media differs, as do legal professionals, but the public are left out of the history making none the less. The public generally asks for this, as being generally compliant with the cultures, but there is the question of individual cases, and I do not think any legal professional accepts a case unless it is convenient to the profession - there really are no knights in shining armour, the world turns on public relations and no professional will acknowledge this except unofficially. An Irish newspaper reporter said of the courts unofficially Its all a con, isn't it? The public must be warned that the cultures are not reported by the media to the extent of reporting scandalous suppressions of law.

[@PeterChilton]

Corruption=pouvoir+monopole-transparence.

[@amjadchatila7066]

Enriching 👏🏻

[@PeterChilton]

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