The following is a guest post by Tariq Ahmad, a foreign law specialist in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Tariq has previously contributed posts on Islamic Law in Pakistan – Global Legal Collection Highlights, the Law Library’s 2013 Panel Discussion on Islamic Law, Sedition Law in India, New Report from the Law Library of Congress On The Regulation of Hemp Around the World, and FALQ posts on Proposals to Reform Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws, Article 370 and the Removal of Jammu and Kashmir’s Special Status, and The Controversy Over Marriage and Anti-Conversion Laws in India, among others.
The Law Library of Congress recently published a report, Regulation of payments to former officials from foreign governments, which provides a table and accompanying maps of selected countries that have enacted laws that either (a) prohibit former officials from receiving payments from foreign governments for some time after leaving office, or (b) require disclosure of such payments. Our research surveyed most OECD member countries and selected additional jurisdictions. The table includes information on 16 countries that have enacted one or both such types of laws, the full name of the rules, regulations, or policies that impose such prohibitions/obligations, and a short description of the provisions and how they are enforced or implemented. The accompanying maps reflect our findings on all surveyed jurisdictions with the first map describing whether countries prohibit former officials from receiving payments from foreign governments and the second map describes whether they require disclosure of such payments.
To find out more, we invite you to review our report, here.
The report is an addition to the Law Library’s Legal Reports (Publications of the Law Library of Congress) collection, which includes over 4,000 historical and contemporary legal reports covering a variety of jurisdictions, researched and written by foreign law specialists with expertise in each area. To receive alerts when new reports are published, you can subscribe to email updates and the RSS feed for Law Library Reports (click the “subscribe” button on the Law Library’s website). The Law Library also regularly publishes articles related to technology in the Global Legal Monitor.
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