Roundtable announced on International Regime Complexes and Corporate Crime

Corporate actors are known to strategically exploit global regulatory gaps and loopholes. However, the international regulatory environment of multinational corporations is not only characterized by the absence and weakness of regulation. Corporations also operate in an international environment with multiple, overlapping and sometimes contradicting regulatory regimes. These different regulatory demands in different jurisdictions create regulatory complexity which may stimulate compliance with more stringent regimes, but may also create opportunities for strategic behaviour and corporate crime. In the latter context, the fraudulent manipulation of diesel cars by manufacturer Volkswagen is a case in point.

The Platform Markets & Corporations in Open Societies will organise a roundtable on International Regime Complexes and Corporate Crime. This roundtable kicks off a project analysing the implications of parallel and/or conflicting international regulatory regimes for opportunities for corporate crime and compliance. The project raises the question how we can explain corporate behaviour in complex international regulatory landscapes; aims to identify pathways of corporate behaviour in a complex international regulatory landscape; and develops potential strategies for state and non-state governance actors to prevent corporate crime. Prof. dr. Caelesta Braun and prof. dr. Judith van Erp are the project’s supervisors.

During this roundtable, researchers from multiple Utrecht University departments – including the departments of governance, philosophy and law – will discuss these and related questions from their respective disciplinary backgrounds. More details (including date, programme and venue) will be announced soon, but the event will be open for the general public.

Start date and time       to be announced

End date and time         to be announced

Location                       to be announced

Entrance fee                 Free