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Andrew Brady Spalding

Professor of Law

Faculty Director, LLM Program

Courses Taught International Business Transactions Corporate Compliance Corruption in the Olympic Games Anti-Bribery Seminar Comparative Business Law Contracts

Profile

Professor Andy Spalding teaches and writes in the area of international anti-corruption law. He is a member of the Frequent Visiting Faculty at the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) in Austria, Senior Editor of the FCPA Blog, and was the founding president of the American Society of International Law’s Anti-Corruption Interest Group. As Chair of the Olympics Compliance Task Force, Professor Spalding collaborates with a team of international academics and practitioners, and with the International Olympic Committee, to design and promote Olympic host-country anti-corruption and human rights measures.

Professor Spalding writes principally in two areas: international anti-bribery law; and corruption and human rights in mega sports. His anti-bribery research focuses on the causes and effects of uneven global enforcement; the impact of current enforcement on bribery’s victims, especially in developing countries; the universality of the anti-corruption ethic; and whether freedom from corruption should be understood as a human right. His work has appeared in the UCLA Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, Wisconsin Law Review, in books published by the University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, and Routledge Press, and in many other academic venues. His work specifically on corruption and human rights has been published with the Brookings Institution and appears in the forthcoming study New Human Rights: Recognition, Novelty, Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press), commissioned by the European Commission. He has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Atlantic, Forbes, and National Public Radio, and other outlets. He was the first editor to join the FCPA Blog, a leading anti-corruption and compliance blog that now receives two million hits annually from 190 countries.

Professor Spalding’s interest in domestic anti-corruption movements brought him to the study of mega sporting events. His monograph, A Governance Legacy (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2021) looks at the surprising ability of these events to catalyze enduring host-country anti-corruption and human rights reforms. He has empirically studied this dynamic in Brazil, South Korea, France, and Qatar.

A JD/PhD, Professor Spalding currently holds a research grant from the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Studies Centre, and was formerly a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar based in Mumbai India.

Presentations

Presentations Prior to 2019

Bar Admissions

Washington, D.C.

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor of Law (2012 - present)

University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, VA

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law (2010 - 2012)

Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL

Fulbright Senior Research Scholar (2009 - 2010)

The U.S.-India Educational Foundation, Mumbai,

Associate, Securities Enforcement and Litigation (2006 - 2008)

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC

Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Jay S. Bybee (2004 - 2005)

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Las Vegas, NV

Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Howard D. McKibben (2003 - 2004)

U.S. District Court, District of Nevada, Reno, NV

Publications

Journal Articles

Brazil's Olympic-Era Anti-Corruption Reforms, 32 Maryland Journal of International Law 188 (2017).

Restoring Pre-Existing Compliance through the FCPA Pilot Program, 48 University of Toledo Law Review 519 (2017).

On Maximizing Deterrence Per Dollar: Thoughts Inspired by Peter Reilly, 67 Florida Law Review 233 (2016).

Deconstructing Duty Free: Investor-State Arbitration as Private Anti-Bribery Enforcement, 49 U.C. Davis Law Review 443 (2015).

Restorative Justice for Multinational Corporations, 76 Ohio State Law Journal 357 (2015).

Corruption, Corporations, and the New Human Right, 91 Washington University Law Review 1365 (2014).

From the 2014 World Cup to the 2016 Olympics: Brazil's Role in the Global anti-Corruption Movement, 21 Southwestern Journal of International Law 71 (2014).

The Problem of Deterring Extraterritorial White-Collar Crime, 17 Chapman Law Review 355 (2014).

Four Uncharterered Corners of Anti-Corruption Law: In Search of Remedies to the Sanctioning Effect, 2012 Wisconsin Law Review 661 (2012).

The Irony of International Business Law: U.S. Progressivism and China's New Laissez-Faire, 59 UCLA Law Review 354 (2011).

Unwitting Sanctions: Understanding Anti-Bribery Legislation as Economic Sanctions against Emerging Markets, 62 Florida Law Review 351 (2010).

Book Chapters

Freedom from Corruption as a Human Right, in New Human Rights for the 21st Century (2020).

Reflections on Corruption as a Rights Violation, in [Book Title TBA] (2020).

Restoring Bribery's Victims , in Corruption, Business Law, and Business Ethics (Phil Nichols, ed.) (2020).

Restoring Bribery's Victims, in Corruption, Business Law, and Business Ethics (University of Chicago Press) (2016).

Rio 2016 and the Birth of Brazilian Transparency, in Executive Summary - Global Corruption Report: Sport (with Pat Barr et al.) (2016).

Rio 2016 and the Birth of Brazilian Transparency, in Corruption and International Sport (2016).

Civil Justice and Judicial Selection, in Justice in Jeopardy: Report of the Commission on the 21st Century Judiciary (American Bar Association) (with Carl Tobias) (2003).

Blog Posts

The Governance Legacy of Mega-Sporting Events: A Golden Opportunity to Promote Human Rights, Institute for Human Rights and Business (December 2018).

Corruption kills another Olympic dream, FCPA Blog (November 2018).

Surprise: Federal, state, and local agencies enforce Brazil's anti-corruption law, FCPA Blog (with Luiz Santiago) (November 2018).

Anti-corruption law from a British point of view, FCPA Blog (July 2018).

Will FIFA now follow the IOC's lead?, FCPA Blog (June 2018).

Olympic compliance and Paris 2024: It's France's turn to lead, FCPA Blog (with Cecilia Fellhouse-Guenkel) (June 2018).

Going global: IACA's new Master in Anti-Corruption Compliance, FCPA Blog (May 2018).

Olympic anti-corruption measures, in three dimensions, FCPA Blog (February 2018).

The view from Pyeongchang: On windmills and anti-corruption, FCPA Blog (February 2018).

Larry Nassar and the anti-corruption Olympics, FCPA Blog (January 2018).

But what can I do before a violation occurs?, FCPA Blog (December 2017).