Punishing corporate crime: Review of Brandon Garrett’s Too Big To Jail

Nicholas Gilby, 28 December 2014

Professor Garrett has written an important book about a topic – corporate crime – that may not be a top concern of the ordinary person, but is arguably as important a topic as the type of crime (those against the person) that ordinary people do care about. For instance, in Britain fraud on its own […]

Review of Putin’s Kleptocracy by Karen Dawisha

Nicholas Gilby, 16 November 2014

Professor Karen Dawisha’s new book Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who owns Russia? promised much. According to the blurb on the jacket it “describes Putin’s rapid rise to power, the cabal he brought with him, the oligarchs they have created, the billions they have looted…she reveals a deeply corrupt country ruled by a thieving regime”. Further, Cambridge University […]