GAB friend and occasional contributor Professor Andrew Spalding contributes the following announcement:

The American Society of International Law (ASIL) has established an Anti-Corruption Interest Group (ACLIG)  designed to create a forum for mutual engagement among practitioners and scholars. The group will be holding its inaugural conference/workshop on October 2-3, 2015, at the University of Pennsylvania.

The ACLIG co-chairs (Professor Spalding and Professor Philip Nichols) are soliciting papers for this event, from both academics and practitioners. Those who are interested in giving a paper at the meeting should submit a one-page proposal to Ms. Lauretta Tomasco at tomascol@wharton.upenn.edu by August 7, 2015 (two weeks from today!). If accepted, a proposer must supply a paper of at least five pages by September 25, 2015. Copies of all papers will be distributed to all participants before the workshop, so that all workshop participants will be able to read the material in advance and come to the workshop prepared to thoroughly discuss the ideas contained in each paper. (The precise format of the conference/workshop will depend on the number of submissions received.)

Submissions on any topic related to corruption are welcome. Possible topics might include but are not limited to:

• the nature, manifestations and forms of corruption
• effects of corruption on business, economies, governments, or society
• domestic control of corruption
• comparative analysis of domestic corruption laws
• corporate liability for corruption
• codes of conduct to control corruption
• contracting/controlling third party risk
• corruption within nongovernmental organizations
• collective anticorruption programs
• anticorruption certification standards
• control of transnational corruption
• national and international anticorruption regimes
• coordination of anticorruption regimes
• soft law controls on corruption
• legal recourse for victims of corruption
• an anticorruption organization

Those who are interested but have further questions should please contact Professor Spalding at aspaldin@richmond.edu.