{"id":877,"date":"2018-03-30T14:15:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T14:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/fridaylunch\/?p=877"},"modified":"2024-06-07T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:16:15","slug":"will-the-panama-and-paradise-papers-make-any-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/fridaylunch\/2018\/03\/30\/will-the-panama-and-paradise-papers-make-any-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the \u201cPanama\u201d and \u201cParadise\u201d Papers Make Any Difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Richard Gordon J.D. – Professor of Law and Director, Financial Integrity Institute<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Friday March 30, 2018
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\nDampeer Room
\nKelvin Smith Library<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0*<\/strong><\/span>
\nCase Western Reserve University<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dear Colleagues:<\/p>\n

Fifty years ago, Andy Warhol said that in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15-minutes.<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s imprecise but we\u2019ve become accustomed to such bursts of publicity.<\/p>\n

Two years ago a leak of millions of documents, the\u00a0\u201cPanama Papers,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0led to 300 reporters working through the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists publishing a coordinated blast of stories through major outlets around the world, which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for how it exposed \u201cthe hidden infrastructure and global scale of offshore tax havens.\u201d This past November, a similarly massive trove appeared as the\u00a0\u201cParadise Papers,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0similarly illustrating pervasive tax evasion (at least) and not helping the images of, among others, Queen Elizabeth, Apple, Madonna, Vladimir Putin, and Bono.<\/p>\n

A great set of stories, but have you heard much about them since? And if not, is that because they were<\/strong><\/span>\u00a015 minutes of scandal<\/span>\u00a0or because a lot is happening quietly?<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0There have been a few visible results \u2013 especially in Pakistan, where the Supreme Court ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for corruption. And the law firm in the Panama story, Mossack Fonseca, went out of business. But are business practices changing, or governments cracking down?\u00a0Professor Gordon offers his perspective as a leading scholar of international tax evasion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All best regards,
\nJoe White
\nLuxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies<\/span><\/p>\n

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About Our Guest<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard Gordon<\/strong>\u00a0teaches courses on financial integrity, banking regulation, and international taxation. Prior to coming to Case Western Reserve, Gordon practiced international tax law in Washington, DC, and later taught courses in tax and corporate governance at the Harvard Law School, where he also served as deputy director of the International Tax Program. After leaving Harvard, Gordon joined the staff of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) where he was senior counsel and senior financial sector expert, and where he worked on sovereign debt restructuring and financial integrity matters.<\/p>\n

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Gordon served on the select IMF Task Force on Terrorism Finance and co-led the IMF and World Bank\u2019s involvement in anti-money laundering and terrorism financing. He was the principal draftsperson of the preventive measures section of the first compliance assessment methodology for the Financial Action Task Force 40 Recommendations. He has participated in a number of FATF 40 compliance assessments in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and Southeast Asia, and has published numerous scholarly articles, book chapters and research studies on anti-money laundering and terrorism as well as scholarly articles and book chapters on taxation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where We Meet<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Friday Public Affairs Lunch convenes each Friday when classes are in session, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Our programs are open to all and no registration is required. We usually meet in the Dampeer Room of Kelvin Smith Library.<\/span><\/p>\n

* Kelvin Smith Library requires all entrants to show identification when entering the building, unless they have a university i.d. that they can magnetically scan. We are sorry if that seems like a hassle, but it has been Library policy for a while in response to security concerns. Please do not complain to the library staff at the entrance, who are just doing their jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Dampeer Room is on the second floor of the library. If you get off the elevators, turn right, pass the first bank of tables, and turn right again. Occasionally we need to use a different room; that will always be announced in the weekly e-mails.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The most convenient parking is the lot underneath Severance Hall. We regret that it is not free. From that lot there is an elevator up to street level (labeled as for the Thwing Center); it is less than 50 yards from that exit to the library entrance. You can get from the Severance garage to the library without going outside. Near the entry gates – just to the right if you were driving out – there is a door into a corridor. Walk down the corridor and there will be another door. Beyond that door you’ll find the entrance to an elevator which goes up to an entrance right inside the doors to Kelvin Smith Library.<\/span><\/p>\n

Schedule of Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

April 6: Income Inequality Among Seniors, At Home and Abroad.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Terry Hokenstad Jr. Ph.D.<\/strong>, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, and\u00a0Emily Campbell M.A.<\/strong>, Associate Director, Center for Community Solutions.<\/p>\n

April 13: The Eurozone Crisis is Over: Now What?<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Nicolas V\u00e9ron<\/strong>, Senior Fellow at the Bruegel think tank in Brussels and the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C.\u00a0***Alternate Location: Peter B. Lewis Building, Room 202, 11119 Bellflower Rd, Cleveland, OH 44106***<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 20: People and Property.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Peter Gerhart J.D.<\/strong>, Professor and Dean Emeritus, School of Law.<\/p>\n

April 27: Two Sides of Brexit.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Elliot Posner Ph.D.<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Political Science, and\u00a0Luke Reader Ph.D.<\/strong>, SAGES Lecturer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

March 27, 2018<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Upcoming Events<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Continuing Salience of the Terrorism Prosecution<\/span><\/p>\n

A discussion with Wadie Said, Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law, Monday April 16, 2018, 4:30 p.m., CWRU School of Law, Moot Courtroom (A59), 11075 East Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio 44106. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.S. government’s power to categorize individuals as terrorist suspects and therefore ineligible for certain long-standing constitutional protections has expanded exponentially since 9\/11, all the while remaining resistant to oversight. Professor Wadie Said provides an up-to-date dissection of the government’s advantages over suspects in criminal prosecutions of terrorism, which are driven by a preventive mindset that purports to stop plots before they can come to fruition. Professor Said also discusses the background for these controversial policies and practices and then demonstrates how they have impeded the normal goals of criminal prosecution, even in light of a competing military tribunal model. Said explores the emergence of a “terrorist exceptionalism” to normal rules of criminal law and procedure and questions whether the government has overstated the threat posed by the individuals it charges with these crimes, resulting in continuing violations of basic constitutional protections for criminal defendants.<\/p>\n

Wadie Said is a graduate of Princeton University and the Columbia University School of Law, where he served as an articles editor of the\u00a0Columbia Human Rights Law Review<\/em>. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of South Carolina, he was a visiting professor in the Law and Society Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an assistant federal public defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Middle District of Florida, where he represented one of the defendants in U.S. v. Al-Arian, a complex terrorism conspiracy case. Upon graduation from law school, he served as law clerk to Chief Judge Charles P. Sifton of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and as a litigation associate in the New York office of Debevoise and Plimpton, where he helped coordinate the firm’s pro bono political asylum program.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Will the \u201cPanama\u201d and \u201cParadise\u201d Papers Make Any Difference?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard Gordon J.D. – Professor of Law and Director, Financial Integrity Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday March 30, 2018
\n12:30-1:30 p.m.
\nDampeer Room
\nKelvin Smith Library<\/strong>\u00a0*<\/strong>
\nCase Western Reserve University<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Colleagues:<\/p>\n

Fifty years ago, Andy Warhol said that in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15-minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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