Founder and Content Curator of CEJ, Michele DeStefano recently published her new book Legal Upheaval: A Guide to Creativity, Collaboration and Innovation in Law, adressing the overthrow in the market for legal services and the associated challenges for the sector. Michele DeStefano is the founder and director of LawWithoutWalls and a Professor of Law at Miami Law. She is an expert in entrepreneurship in the law. Her scholarship focuses on the growing intersections between law and business and legal entrepreneurship.

In the light of Michael Walters’s declarations on the relationship of the perpetrator to the offense based on the theory of techniques of neutralization the article sets its sights on the structuring of in-house compliance programs in order to ensure internally prevention measures. In doing so the author states that those compliance programs should primarily rely on creating an atmosphere in which common neutralization strategies are not accepted. In order to be successful the companies need in-depth programs, which are goal-oriented. But there has to be a company interest in compliance as well. The “tone from the top” plays an important role when it comes to neutralization strategies. The essay shows the meaning of techniques of neutralization within the area of applied economic criminology.

This article explores the role of ‘systems of beliefs’ and disciplinary and professional norms and culture as a potential source of conflicts of interest in decision-making by professionals. In particular it argues that ‘intellectual’ views and professional values and agendas, may represent a potent source of potential conflicts of interest, which may not be readily recognised or fully understood across diverse disciplinary or professional settings, because of differing disciplinary/professional world-views, training and priorities. The article argues that there is a need for more open and honest cross-disciplinary conversations about how conflicts of interest are constructed and navigated in different scholarly and professional contexts. This is key to unmasking potential conflicts of interest that may unconsciously be sourced by particular intellectual views, positions and systems of beliefs, particularly when they are unquestioningly assumed to be beneficent. This discussion is important for decision-makers, such as university human research ethics committees and other cross-disciplinary institutional or organisational (corporate and non-corporate) decision-making or review bodies, for whom potential conflicts of interest are a core consideration in their activities and deliberations.

Integrity Management is generally understood as a reaction to forensically relevant corporate situations of any kind whatsoever. A critical case occurs (corruption, cartel, and fraudulent transactions) and the call is made for compliance (for external control) and integrity (for internal cleansing). The following article sees it from a different perspective: Integrity Management as a proactive control factor of support in the implementation of strategic goals. Starting with a quick glance at historical positions of the ethical discussion and in conjunction with some pragmatic considerations on the topic of integrity, it will demonstrate, using a case from practical experience, how an organization uses Integrity Management to shape the culture and thus the character of the enterprise in such a way that Integrity Management becomes a fundamental component in implementing the strategy.

This essay provides an overview of the compliance management and compliance training in China. It explains the factors behind a growing awareness of compliance management among Chinese domestic non-financial companies. It also discusses some typical culture challenges discovered during the compliance trainings for Chinese companies and their newly established compliance function.

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La libertad vigilada aprobada en 2010 supone una superación de la barrera del dualismo con tendencia monista que imperó en el Código penal de 1995, por el que las medidas de seguridad no podían ser aplicadas a imputables. La tendencia reformista jurídico-penal de los últimos tiempos, pretende un retorno al dualismo rígido de corte clásico en el que penas y medidas de seguridad coexistirán como medios de reacción frente al delito y se aplicaran de forma conjunta para servir a los fines preventivo-generales y especiales de forma simbiótica. La reforma pasó por varias formulaciones en distintos anteproyectos con naturalezas jurídicas distintas, aunque finalmente se promulgó como medida de seguridad y no como pena, aplicable solo a delicuentes sexuales y terroristas. La tesis concluye que la libertad vigilada sigue necesitando una reforma para evitar el retroceso en la progresividad tras el tratamiento de reinserción recibido en prisión, se necesita que sirva más a la prevención especial positiva enfocada a la reinserción, que a la prevención especial negativa o inocuización. / The supervision of conduct was approved in 2010, and supposed a overcoming of the model of penalties regulated in the Spanish Penal Code of 1995. In fact, one of the most important changes in legislation is the possibility of security measures for imputable persons. Now the criminal policy in the Spanish criminal law, pretend come back to a strict dualism (classical model in Spain), where the penalties coexist with the security measures. This model suppose implement the preventive model (deterrence), in combination with a individual-rehabilitation system. The legislative change of 2010, was originated in differents bills, with various nature and content. But, the result was the legislative approbation like a security measure for sexual predators and terrorists but not like a penalty. This Phd dissertation conclude than the supervision of conduct still needs other legislative change to avoid the regression in the rehabilitation treatment. A more intensive rehabilitation focus in opposition to the incapacitation (negative special prevention).

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It is our great pleasure to introduce you to the inaugural edition of Compliance Elliance Journal, also known as CEJ. This project has been a labor of love over the past year and we are excited to publish some thought-provoking works. But before we present the pieces, we would like to introduce CEJ and share our vision. We initially began our collaboration through our academic work in developing crosscultural educational programs. Along the way, we realized that we shared a mutual interest, research, and scholarship in the area of compliance and ethics. Correspondingly, we decided that an open-access journal would be a fitting way to expand our vision of making the global compliance dialogue more easily accessible. It is our sincere wish to create an atmosphere encouraging the exchange of ideas between business and legal practitioners, academics, and students from around the world while also creating a platform to combine practical solutions to problems facing the compliance industry with scientific findings.

El principio "societas delinquere non potest" ya no constituye un principio vertebrador del Derecho penal; el referido aforismo ya quedó relativizado en el texto originario del Código Penal de 1995 (artículo 129 CP). Posteriormente, el Proyecto de Ley Orgánica de Reforma del CP de 2007 y los sucesivos textos prelegislativos posteriores (Anteproyecto de Reforma del Código Penal de 2008) acogieron propuestas que suponían su erradicación. Con la Reforma del CP de 22 de junio del 2010, se introdujo en el Código Penal el estatuto de responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas en el artículo 31 bis CP, cuyas controvertidas particularidades evidenciaron, a ojos de la doctrina, un más que cuestionable modelo normativo elegido por el legislador. Finalmente, con la Reforma del CP de 2015 se incorporaron modificaciones parciales al referido estatuto, que a pesar de haberse concebido para superar las carencias verificadas en la anterior regulación, comportaron la inserción de novedosos elementos hasta entonces desconocidos por el Ordenamiento jurídico penal, lo que trajo como causa que el modelo de responsabilidad de los entes continuara en entredicho. En definitiva, la responsabilidad penal ya no sólo se concibe con respecto a las personas físicas, sino que a partir de la Reforma del CP de 2010, se puede hablar de una responsabilidad directa e independiente de las personas jurídicas. A lo largo de este trabajo, se tratn de explicar las novedades legislativas en cuanto a la regulación de la responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas y se analizan los efectos que puedan derivarse de esta nueva regulación, haciendo especial referencia a los fundamentos de la atribución de la responsabilidad penal y a la materia del Compliance Penal como eje central sobre el que versarán las circunstancias modificativas de la responsabilidad penal. Asimismo, se formulan valoraciones político-criminales a la vista de posibles inconvenientes e incongruencias suscitados por las últimas Reformas penales. Por consiguiente, el presente trabajo aborda tanto cuestiones que se ubican en el plano dogmático como en el que es propio de la política criminal. / The aphorism "societas delinquere non potest" is not constituted as a guiding principle of criminal Law. The aforementioned aphorism was relativized in the original text of the Penal Code of 1995 (Article 129 CP). Subsequently, the draft Organic Law on Penal Code reform and the successive pre-legislative texts (draft reform of the Penal Code of 2008), welcomed proposals that assumed its eradication. With the reform of the Penal Code of 2010, it was introduced into the Penal Code the statute of criminal liability of legal persons, at article 31 CP, whose controversial peculiarities evidenced, from the doctrine point of view, a more than a questionable model chosen by the legislature. Finally, the reform of the Penal Code of 2015, partial modifications were incorporated intro de aforementioned statute, which despite of being designed to overcome the shortcomings verified in the previous regulation, inserted new elements that were unknown for criminal Law until then, which meant that the model of criminal liability of the entities continue into question. In conclusion, criminal liability is not only referring to individuals, but also to legal persons. Throughout this research, we try to explain the legislative developments regarding regulation of criminal liability of legal persons, and we will analyze the effects that may result from this new regulation, with particular reference to the fundamentals of criminal liability attribution and to the criminal compliance, as a central axis of modifying circumstances of criminal responsibility. This thesis analyzes the inconsistencies and incongruities of recent penal reforms and undertakes both dogmatic issues as political-criminals.