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Making the Link Between Corruption and Human Rights: Promises and Perils

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Joel M. Ngugi
Joel M. Ngugi*
Affiliation:
African Studies Program, University of Washington School of Law
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Corruption and Human Rights
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 104 , 2010 , pp. 246 - 250
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2010

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References

1 My co-panelist Julio Bacio-Terracino has done some of the most comprehensive work in detailing the exact links between corruption and human rights. See, e.g., Julio Bacio-Terracino, Corruption as a Human Rights Violation (Int’l Council Hum. Rts. Pol’y, forthcoming), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1107918.

2 For a detailed account of this first wave of “anti-corruption” as a global issue, see Gathii, James, Defining the Relationship Between Corruption and Human Rights, 31 U. Pa. J. Int’l L. 125 (2009)Google Scholar.

3 Id.

4 For an excellent account of the link between the economic and political approaches and the “good governance” project, see Zoe Pearson, Human Rights and Corruption, available at http://www.cdi.anu.edu.au/_research/1998-2004/research_publications/research_downloads/hrc.pdf.

5 Morgan, Amanda, Corruption: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Implications 21 (Asia Found. Working Paper Series, 1998)Google Scholar, available at http://asiafoundation.org/pdf/wp9.pdf.

6 Pearson, supra note 4, at 23.

7 See Ramasastry, Anita, Odious Debt or Odious Payments? Using Anti-corruption Measures to Prevent Odious Debt, 32 N.C. J. Int’l L. & Com. Reg. 819 (2007)Google Scholar.

8 Gathii, supra note 2 at 166.

9 Rajagopal, Balakrishnan, Corruption, Legitimacy and Human Rights: The Dialectic of the Relationship, 14 Conn. J. Int’l L. 495 (1999)Google Scholar.