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Submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Abstract: Though it is the FBI's highest criminal priority, there is no crime of 'public corruption' in the United States. Instead, acts we generally believe to constitute public corruption are criminalized in a broad array of overlapping statutes against acts such as ... read morebribery, extortion, and fraud. An ad hoc development of public corruption doctrine has resulted in a messy, confusing regime that remains full of open questions. This paper seeks to identify those questions and describe how they are dealt with in the United Kingdom. Part I will identify the toughest, most important open doctrinal questions in this field. Part II will describe the UK legal regime and compare it to existing American legal doctrine.read less
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