Cornelia Woll | Hertie School
In a geoeconomic world, companies become transmission belts and sites of conflict between states. Based on her recent book Corporate Crime and Punishment, Cornelia Woll will explore how the United States has used corporate criminal law well beyond its territory to shape the economy in support of its national interests. At the heart of the book is a critical analysis of how economic law enforcement has become entangled with geopolitics, where legal actions can serve as instruments of international power struggles. This in turn triggers institutional change in numerous countries which profoundly alter the moral economy of global markets.
