The Harvard European Law Association would like to invite you to a lecture by Bernard Cazeneuve, Former Prime Minister of France.
On Friday March 1 from 4:30pm to 5:30pm, Mr. Cazeneuve will talk about the Cooperation between the United States and Europe to combat International Corruption. The Lecture will take place at Hauser Hall, 102 Malkin Classroom, Harvard Law School.
Please note that there are only 40 tickets available for the lecture. You can register on Eventbrite with the password “HELA”.
Bernard Cazeneuve
Bernard Cazeneuve was Prime Minister of France from 2016 to 2017. He was also Minister of State for European Affairs (2012-2013), Minister of State for the Budget (2013-2014) and Minister of Interior (2014-2016).
Since 2017, Bernard Cazeneuve has been a partner at August Debouzy specialized in White-Collar Crime, Compliance and Litigation. He has also been a speaker at many conferences related to security, politics, law and economy and a lecturer at the Paris University Sciences Po on international security.
The Lecture
Mr. Cazeneuve will talk about the cooperation between the US and Europe to combat bribery and international corruption, a field he is practicing in as a Partner at August Debouzy. After the lecture there will be ample opportunity to ask questions.
With the adoption of the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA) in 1977, the US aimed to tackle the problem of corruption by Foreign Public Agents of American firms. Since the adoption of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions in 1997, the US has also applied the FCPA extraterritorially and concluded the Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) for crimes committed abroad by foreign firms.
At the same time, Europe aimed to attack international corruption in domestic firms by adopting laws inspired by the US model. For example, the UK adopted the Bribery Act in 2010 and France adopted the Law Sapin II in 2016 which created a legal framework similar to the DPA and an Anti-Corruption Agency.
Mr. Cazeneuve advocates both the creation of a European Anti-Corruption Prosecutor in charge of prosecuting corruption committed in Europe or by European firms and a renewal of the cooperation between the US Department of Justice, European Union, and European Prosecutors.