If eradicating bribery in the international marketplace is the goal of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Mike Koehler thinks the policy could do better. A business law professor at Butler University and author of the popular blog FCPA Professor, Koehler is a critic not only of the law firm practice that has grown up around FCPA enforcement (which he dubs “FCPA Inc.”), but also of what he considers to be the shortcomings of the law, which sanctions companies for making illicit payments to foreign officials.
His latest FCPA-focused critique comes in the form of a forthcoming article in the Wisconsin Law Review, “Revisiting a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Compliance Defense.”
