'Law
and Corruption in Turbulent Times:
Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives from
the Mediterranean and South-Eastern Europe'
14th Mediterranean Research
Meeting
Mersin (Turkey)
20-23 March 2013
This
workshop will address interactions between law and corruption in the Middle East
and North Africa, and southern and south-eastern Europe. The basic issue we wish
to explore is: How is legislation, policy and law-in-practice influenced by
corruption, and what regulation and control of corruption is there by law, in a
region experiencing the aftermath of the ‘Arab
Spring’
and the European sovereign debt and banking crisis?
Consideration
of the relationship between law and corruption is particularly timely given
seismic political, economic and social transformations in these regions.
Corruption has been highlighted during both the sovereign debt crisis in the
Eurozone, and during mass protests broadly identified with the ‘Arab Spring’.
This will be an opportunity to develop scholarship that responds to these
unprecedented events in both looking at the enactment, use and failure of law to
prevent or punish corruption, and exploring the influence of corruption on the
legal process, including the passing of legislation, individual courts cases and
the enforcement of law-in-daily life.
Our
definition of corruption is the ‘abuse of public office for private gain’ (World
Bank, 1997) and of law as the principles and regulations established by some
authority, whether in the form of some legislation or custom. Participants from
the fields of legal studies, political science, economics, anthropology,
socio-legal studies and history (amongst others) will present their research
findings on interactions between law and corruption and consider methodological
problems associated with researching it from perspectives including governance,
legal realism and social anthropology.
Deadline
for submission of paper proposals has been extended to 6 October 2012. For more
information please visit the MRM website:
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