Stanford Law School (SLS) has launched a new public database that provides documents, resources and analytic tools designed to foster awareness of the fight against global corruption. This database, called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Clearinghouse (FCPAC), was spearheaded by SLS Professor Joseph Grundfest, who also founded the award-winning Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse.

The FCPAC is a free, comprehensive database of enforcement actions and information related to the Federal Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). It allows users to search and sort data about enforcement actions, view original documents, access relevant laws and precedent, and read articles about FCPA compliance and enforcement. It is a public service provided through the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School. It’s available at http://fcpa.stanford.edu.

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The database was built and populated primarily by our team of Stanford Law School researchers: Juan Carlos Sanchez, Kristen Savelle and William Garrett, with help from a small army of additional contributors. The project started in earnest almost three years ago, so it hasn’t been an overnight effort. Also, we’ve benefited from the extraordinary input of attorneys at Sullivan & Cromwell, the Clearinghouse’s sponsor. Those attorneys are in the trenches on a daily basis dealing with the complex issues raised by the FCPA, and their experience has been essential to the construction of a database that will be responsive to user needs.