Overview

The Law of Whistleblowing: Cross-disciplinary, Contextual and Comparative Perspectives provides a contextual and cross-disciplinary analysis of legal responses to whistleblowing from a comparative perspective. Examining developments in criminal, labour, corporate and administrative law, contributions in this volume provide one of the first comprehensive analyses of the emerging multi-level legal framework to protect whistleblowers.

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Author:   Valsamis Mitsilegas ,  Santiago Wortman Jofre
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   0.197kg
ISBN:  

9789004459809

ISBN 10:   9004459804
Pages:   100
Publication Date:   09 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Protecting Whistleblowers: The Challenges of Developing an Effective Legal Framework  Valsamis Mitsilegas and Santiago Wortman Jofre From Obscurity to Limelight: Whistleblowers’ Protection under EU Law  Dimitrios Kafteranis  1 Introduction: Blowing the Whistle at the Heart of the European Union  2 The Role of the European Parliament Towards the Adoption of an EU Legal Framework on the Protection of Whistleblowers  3 From the Proposal to the Final Text of the Directive on the Protection of Persons Who Report Breaches of Union  4 Remarks on the Directive and Its Special Relationship with Criminal Law  5 Concluding Remarks A Decade of Fast-track Whistleblowing Legislation: The Quest for Effective Protection of Whistleblowers in Greece  Anna Damaskou and Antonios Baltas  1 The Significance of Culture in Enacting and Implementing Whistleblowing Legislation Effectively  2 The State of Corruption and Whistleblower Protection in an EU Member State Lacking Dedicated Whistleblowing Legislation  3 Can Corruption Be De-rooted without Dedicated Whistleblowing Legislation?  4 “… And Then There Was Light”: The Enactment of Dedicated Whistleblowing Legislation in Greece  5 The Novartis Scandal in Greece: A Stress-Test for the Greek Whistleblowing Legislation and Culture  6 The Efficiency of Whistleblowers’ Protection in Greece in View of the Transposition of the EU Directive on the Protection of Whistleblowers  7 The Transpositon of the EU Directive on the Protection of Whistleblowers into the Greek Legal Order  8 The Significance of Culture in Providing Effective Whistleblowing Protection under the Demands of the New Era Protecting Whistleblowers in Israel: The Gap Between the Law and its Implementation  Noa Yosef  1 Introduction  2 Background  3 Israel’s Main Laws for Protecting Whistleblowers  4 Criticism against the Protection of Employees Law and State Comptroller Law  5 Criminal Laws and Civil-Labour Laws – Complementary Mechanisms  6 Conclusion: More Is Better Than One Whistleblowing and Cooperating Witnesses in Context: The Argentinian Perspective  Hugo Wortman Jofre and Ana Clara Rivero  1 Introduction  2 The Role of Whistleblowers and Cooperating Witnesses  3 Essential Discussions about Cooperating Witnesses

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Valsamis Mitsilegas is Professor of European Criminal Law and Global Security, Director of the Criminal Justice Centre and Deputy Dean for Global Engagement (Europe) at Queen Mary University of London. Santiago Wortman Jofre is a lawyer specialized in Criminal Law (2014), University of Buenos Aires; LL.M. in Criminal Law and Criminal Science (2016), University of Barcelona/University Pompeu Fabra; M.Sc. in Organised Crime, Terrorism and Security (2017), University of Essex, and Ph.D. Candidate at Queen Mary University of London.

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