Event details
This is the final event in the VIRTEU project's roundtable discussion series and will explore the interconnections between institutional corruption and avoidance of taxation.
Main Topics
- The state-corporate nexus: exploring conflict-of-interest situations.
- Undue corporate influence on the political process and lax regulation.
- Tax prosecutions of corporations and backroom deals.
- Future perspectives and recommendations.
Chair
Professor Diane Ring
Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Law, Boston College, VIRTEU Special Adviser
Opening remarks
Dr. Stuart MacLennan
Associate Professor of Law at Coventry University
Introduction
Dr. Costantino Grasso
Assistant Professor in Law, Coventry University, VIRTEU Principal Investigator
Panellists
Professor Brandon L. Garret
L.Neil Williams Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law
Director of the Wilson Centre for Science and Justice
Professor Prem Nath Sikka
Professor of Accounting at the University of Sheffield
Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex
John Christensen (VIRTEU expert)
Director and Founder of the global Tax Justice Network
VIRTEU Impact Expert and Partner
Summing up
Engin Erken
Doctoral Student at the Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity, Coventry University
About the Roundtable Discussion Series
This Roundtable Discussion Series brings together distinguished guests from academic institutions and non-governmental organizations, as well as law firms, and the researchers associated with VIRTEU. The event has been co-organized by the VIRTEU Special Adviser Prof. Diane Ring, the project Principal Investigator, Dr. Costantino Grasso, and the Co-Investigator, Dr. Lorenzo Pasculli.
During each event, which will be open to everyone and held online on Zoom, our esteemed panellists will be engaged in a close discussion and exploration of a series of select topics under the direction of the chair, Prof. Diane Ring, who is Associate Dean of Faculty, Professor of Law and the Dr. Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law. A Q&A session will then give the audience the opportunity to find out more about the topics covered during the Roundtable and interact directly with our distinguished guests.
The series pursues the following project-related aims:
- Knowledge-exchange: promoting an exchange of knowledge between the project researchers and external researchers and stakeholders on relevant topics in the hope that the attendees will leave the roundtables with a better understanding of the interconnections between tax evasion and corruption.
- Peer discussion and feedback: stimulating academic and professional discussion around the topics of the project and obtain peer feedback on the project findings and methods.
- Dissemination: informing the academic community, practitioners, and other relevant stakeholders about the first findings of the project and sharing with them both progress and challenges.