What We Are Reading Today: Corporate Crime and Punishment

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Updated 27 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: Corporate Crime and Punishment

  • Many critics of globalization and corporate impunity cheer this turn toward accountability

Author: Cornelia Wall

Over the past decade, many of the world’s biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental damage, tax evasion, or sanction violations.

Corporations including Volkswagen, BP, and Credit Suisse have paid record-breaking fines.

Many critics of globalization and corporate impunity cheer this turn toward accountability. Others, however, question American dominance in legal battles that seem to impose domestic legal norms beyond national boundaries.

In this book, Cornelia Woll examines the politics of American corporate criminal law’s extraterritorial reach.