Do We Need an International Anti-Corruption Court?
Bribe, Swindle or Steal
Alexandra Addison-Wrage of TRACE International
4.9 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Judge Mark Wolf of Integrity Initiatives International and Matthew Stephenson of Harvard Law School debate the pros and cons of an International Anti-Corruption Court.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the podcast, bribes, |
| 0:01.7 | swindle, or steel. |
| 0:03.0 | We're in Copenhagen today, and we have a slightly different format. |
| 0:06.2 | We're going to debate the idea, the strengths and weaknesses, |
| 0:09.6 | of an international anti-corruption court. |
| 0:12.4 | Joining me for this discussion, Judge Mark Wolfe, |
| 0:15.0 | Mark is a senior judge and the former chief judge |
| 0:17.6 | of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, |
| 0:20.1 | and for our purposes, he's the |
| 0:21.5 | chairman of Integrity Initiatives International. Matthew Stevenson is a professor of law at Harvard |
| 0:27.4 | Law School, where he teaches, among other subjects, anti-corruption law. So thank you both for joining me. |
| 0:33.3 | Thank you. Thank you for having us. |
| 0:35.2 | You're at the very end of the Corruption Hunter's Alliance event here in Copenhagen, and everyone |
| 0:41.0 | has had a long few days. |
| 0:43.2 | So I'm delighted that you made time for this. |
| 0:46.0 | Mark, perhaps you can take a few minutes to set the scene for us and describe your vision |
| 0:52.4 | of an international anti-corruption court? |
| 0:55.4 | The vision for the international anti-corruption court, which is now shared by many people, |
| 1:01.5 | including my colleagues in Integrity Initiatives International, |
| 1:05.7 | who include Justice Richard Goldstone from South Africa, |
| 1:08.5 | the first prosecutor for the independent criminal tribunal |
| 1:12.1 | for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda essentially is as follows. Grand corruption, the abuse |
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