Whose Corruption? Which Law? Law’s Authority and Social Power

Ciaran O'Kelly

Whose Corruption? Which Law? Law’s Authority and Social Power

School of Law

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the concept of ‘legal but corrupt’ from a pluralist perspective. I argue that the naming and ‘discovery’ of corruption relies on an authority to scrutinise and investigate institutional conduct. The plurality of state and non-state laws under which we are governed sets limits however on any institutional capacity to name and so discover misconduct. The paper focuses on the scandals involving the Catholic Church both in Ireland and in the United States and from there I examine how the state’s power to intervene in alternate institutions is conceived.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Legal but Corrupt: a New Perspective on Public Ethics
Editors	Frank Anechiarico
Place of Publication	Lanham, (MD)
Publisher	Rowman and Littlefield International
Number of pages	33
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4985-3639-4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4985-3638-7
Publication status	Published - Dec 2016

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Ciarán O'Kelly
- c.okelly@qub.ac.uk
- School of Law - Lecturer
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Whose Corruption? Which Law? Law’s Authority and Social Power

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Ciarán O'Kelly

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