Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael Recent documents in Bryane Michael (Брайн Майкл) en-us Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:19:45 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/51 http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/51 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:45:13 PDT This presentation provides a review of ECHR's case law since 2005 related to extradition cases. The Ukraine represents one of leading countries in the Strasbourg's court for human rights violations involving extradition cases. The presentation offers concrete ways which the Ukrainian authorities can help bolster human rights in its processing of extradition cases. Bryane Michael http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/50 http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/50 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:45:11 PDT Work on anti-corruption has changed significantly in the mid-1990s -- reflecting a "third wave" of anti-corruption work. If the first and second waves of anti-corruption work reflected the marketisation of anti-corruption projects, the third wave reflects the direct cross-border co-operation between law enforcement agencies (particularly in the European Union). The first part of this paper reviews the literature and the data we consulted in our (rather informal) study. The second part traces the evolution of the anti-corruption industry across time - showing the beginning of each new wave as a "structural break" in the organisational structure of project delivery. The observation of such structural breaks provides an objective criteria for determining when a new wave began - independently of the observer. The third part of the paper reviews the economics of the anti-corruption industry through each of these waves. The fourth section provides tentative observations for other donors and participants in the anti-corruption industry - such as UNDP, the World Bank, NGOs and consulting companies - on lessons from the European Union. This paper unabashedly uses New Institutional Economics as a framework for explaining the interaction of donors, countries, consulting companies and consultants in contributing to the three "structural breaks" in the organisation of the anti-corruption industry during the last 20 years. Bryane Michael Anti-corruption - Articles http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/49 http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/49 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:48:38 PDT International organisations, like the UN and EU, have encouraged their member states for years to increase civil servants' compliance with particular codes of conduct. Romania represents probably one of the most advanced countries in attempting to legislate on civil servant ethics through its Code of Conduct Law. Yet, the Romanian Code of Conduct Law possesses significant weaknesses, emanating both from the inherent difficulties of using hard law in a soft law area (like civil servants' ethics) and the Law's silence as to specific procedures which government agencies should use in implementing the Law. Given these weaknesses, Romanian government agencies should adopt regulatory instruments which compensate for these weaknesses at the legislative level. In this paper, we present the provisions - particularly related to the establishment of agency-level ethical doctrines -- which regulatory drafters can use to implement these codes of conduct in a civil law system without running afoul of the basic requirements of civil law jurisprudence for clarity and predictability. We discuss the legal basis in Romanian administrative law for the elaboration of specific ethics-related doctrines and the ways in which such a "doctrinal approach" to administrative ethics can help achieve the objectives of the flawed Code of Conduct Law. We specifically discuss the ways in which Romanian governments can adopt such regulatory instruments and the types of provisions which should be included in order to help overcome the flaws of the Code of Conduct Law. Bryane Michael Anti-corruption - Articles http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/48 http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/48 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:48:16 PDT The WCO, among international organisations, remains conspicuously absent in its work on anti-corruption. This brief, a set of notes for a conference lecture, provide the steps the WCO should take in order to help customs agencies adopt anti-corruption legislation world-wide. Bryane Michael Anti-corruption - Articles http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/47 http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/47 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:02:54 PDT Article 6 of the UN Convention Against Corruption requires that signatory states establish an anti-corruption agency (or agencies) responsible for preventing corruption. However, the Convention - and legal scholarship in general - provides little direction about how such agencies should be organised. Moreover, the piece-meal nature of anti-corruption legislation in most developing countries makes the efficient operation of such agencies difficult to impossible. This article argues that regulatory instruments can help overcome the inherent weaknesses of legislative governing many anti-corruption agencies. Using the Montenegro's Directorate for Anti-Corruption Initiatives (DACI), I show how the design of a regulation - relying on already existing legislative and other legal provisions - can help improve the preventive anti-corruption agency's ability to tackle corruption. I provide an analysis of the specific provisions of such an activist regulation point out potential pitfalls in the use of such regulations as a way of circumventing the legislature's weakness in fighting corruption. Bryane Michael Anti-corruption - Articles http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/46 http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/46 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:00:19 PDT This presentation provides an overview of the internal audit methodology as applied to functional reviews and audits in the public sector. Specific examples and cases given (and critiques of the classical way of conducting these reviews). Bryane Michael Anti-Corruption - Powerpoints http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/45 http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/45 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:34:50 PDT This presentation discusses the collection and use of court statistics in order to improve justice outcomes. The Council of Europe's CEPEJ's approach is presentated and concrete proposals for Ministry of Justice rulemaking made. Bryane Michael Anti-Corruption - Powerpoints http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/43 http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/43 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:43:39 PDT Општините во Република Македонија треба да усвојат прописи за спречување на корупција со цел да ја намалат корупцијата. Овој труд ги разгледува правните прашања поврзани со изработката на такви прописи и обезбедува правен совет за советите на општините за правна и економска анализа потреба за решавање на некои од потешките и подетални прашања. Најважното прашање произлегува од креирањето на модел на пропис кој општините во Македонија (или Заедницата на единиците на локалната самоуправа на Република Македонија) можат да го усвојат со цел воспоставување и работа на тела за спречување на корупција на локално ниво. Анализирана е локацијата на таквите тела, како и нивните надлежности (помеѓу другото, следење на судир на интереси, мониторинг на анкетните листови, спроведување на ревизии за ризици од корупција). Исто така трудот дава и правно толкување на легислативата во Македонија и нејзиното влијание врз дизајнирањето на прописи од страна на советите на општините од областа на спречување на корупцијата - обезбедувајќи законска основа за позитивен административен молк, поделба на набавките на општините и (најконтроверзно) qui tam наградите на општинско ниво. Кратката анализа на регулаторното влијание на прописот покажува добивка во вредност од 162,900 во општествена корист доколку таква програма се воведе во Македонија. Bryane Michael Foreign Language Documents http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/42 http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/42 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:37:21 PDT This presentation provides a strategy for adopting the provisions related to mutual legal assistance in ETS 182 for accession and ENP countries. Bryane Michael Anti-Corruption - Powerpoints http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/41 http://works.bepress.com/bryane_michael/41 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:44:56 PST This article reviews the present state of the adoption of anti-corruption legal provisions usually adopted in EU (or candidate) countries in Morocco. Morocco lags behind many countries in its adoption of anti-corruption legislation and the recently established Central Agency of the Prevention of Corruption is unlikely to succeed in speeding up the adoption of these measures. English language translations of a number of Moroccan anti-corruption legal instruments are presented and amendments to these legal instruments are recommended (based on international best practice) in order to increase the likely effectiveness of Moroccan law enforcement institutions in fighting corruption. Bryane Michael Anti-corruption - Articles