Presented by Ellen Gutterman<\/strong>, this event will examine how the SNC-Lavalin affair erupted in a firestorm of political controversy in Canada in February 2019, when former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his close advisers of pressuring her to allow the Quebec-based global engineering giant to negotiate a deferred prosecution agreement, rather than face trial on charges it paid bribes to win lucrative contracts in Libya.<\/p>\n Ellen Gutterman<\/p><\/div>\n Looking back on the scandal one year later, the talk will analyse this dramatic episode in Canadian politics against the backdrop of Canada\u2019s international legal obligations to control transnational bribery. These obligations stem from Canada\u2019s multilateral commitments in the global governance of corruption.<\/p>\n The talk will highlight the attempt to use a deferred prosecution agreement in this case, as: an instance of international diffusion of legal practice from the United States; and, a legal strategy to avoid the political and financial costs of anti-corruption enforcement.\u00a0It will conclude with some lessons from the SNC-Lavalin affair for the theory and practice of global governance, generally, and for Canadian foreign policy in the 21st century.<\/p>\n Gutterman is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Glendon College, York University. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of international relations theory, international law, and global politics, with a specific interest in the global governance of transnational crime and corruption. Her research articles \u2013 on transnational advocacy, legitimacy, compliance, norms, extra-territorial enforcement, and other issues in the global governance of corruption \u2013 are published in such journals as Foreign Policy Analysis<\/em>, Review of International Studies<\/em>, Osgoode Hall Law Journal<\/em>, British Journal of Politics and International Relations<\/em>, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal<\/em>, European Political Science<\/em> and elsewhere.<\/p>\n This event runs from 12 to 1:30 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n Feb. 26 \u2013 UN World Day of Social Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n This event is a panel presentation to Commemorate UN World Day of Social Justice, including panelists:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/events.laps.yorku.ca\/files\/2020\/02\/Ellen-J.-Gutterman.jpg\")
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Jennine Rawana<\/strong> is currently the Head of Calumet College and a faculty member in the Clinical Developmental Program in the Dept of Psychology at York University. She is also an executive member of the LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research at York University and a supervising psychologist at the York University Psychology Clinic.<\/p>\n