In Review: The International Fight Against Corruption

Under the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Anti-Bribery Convention, member countries must criminalize bribing a foreign public official in business transactions. GW Law recently hosted an event to discuss if this convention is meeting its objectives, since its launch in 1997. In his keynote address, Mark Pieth, an OECD Chairman for 25 years, said, "We will have a real challenge to maintain the standards. We are having trouble in getting standards in existing countries."