Ouziel on Public Corruption

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

 

This review of Public Corruption and the Law: Cases and Materials, by David Hoffman and Juliet Sorensen, identifies a core problem both in the judicial regulation of public corruption and the way it is taught in law schools: a siloed approach. But the different faces of domestic public corruption – quid-pro-quo corruption of public officials and the corruption of democratic structures through campaign finance abuses, patronage and gerrymandering – are part of an interconnected system, in which reduction or enlargement of one has cascading effects on the others. This presents a regulatory challenge. If we are to meet that challenge we must first enable our future civic leaders to recognize it, beginning by teaching the law of public corruption as a stand-alone course. Yet a review of law schools’ curricula reveals that few law schools do. Hoffman and Sorensen’s book is an invitation to change that one – that we as educators should readily accept.

 

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