Reconceptualising Corporate Compliance: Responsibility, Freedom and the Law

Publication details

Donovan, A. (2021) Reconceptualising Corporate Compliance: Responsibility, Freedom and the Law. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing.

Summary

Joint runner-up for the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, Reconceptualising Corporate Compliance offers a comprehensive examination of the issues surrounding corporate compliance.

The book explores questions such as should corporations comply with the spirit or the letter of the law? What role does compliance play in a capitalist market economy? Why is it that otherwise law-abiding citizens are willing to implement corporate compliance strategies that are seemingly at odds with their personal values? The book responds to these questions, and more, providing an argument for the legitimate role of spirited compliance within a market economy. In doing so, the book employs the lens of classical liberal ideology, challenging the widespread view that technical compliance is simply ‘capitalism.’