Andy Spalding

Professor Andy Spalding teaches and writes in the area of corruption, human rights, and international business. His research has recently focused on human rights and anti-corruption reforms in megasports (principally the FIFA Men’s and Women’s World Cups and the Olympic Games). His monograph, A New Megasport Legacy (Oxford University Press 2022) explores the emerging capacity of megasporting events to catalyze enduring anti-corruption and human rights reforms in the host country. He has contributed chapters on corruption, human rights, and megasports to the forthcoming Routledge Handbook on Megasporting Events and Human Rights and the forthcoming Elgar Encyclopedia on Corruption Law. In 2022, Professor Spalding led a UN-trained team of human rights observers in Qatar during the FIFA Men’s World Cup. He will visit at Sciences Po Law School in Paris in the spring of 2024, where he will teach a research seminar on corruption, human rights, and the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.

Professor Spalding has also written more broadly on issues of transnational corruption, human rights, and business. His anti-bribery research focuses on the causes and effects of uneven global enforcement; the impact of current enforcement on bribery’s victims, especially in developing countries; the universality of the anti-corruption ethic; and whether freedom from corruption should be understood as a human right. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime recently commissioned Professor Spalding to serve as principal author to a forthcoming report on global anti-corruption enforcement. His research has appeared in the UCLA Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, Wisconsin Law Review, in books published by the University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, and Routledge Press, and in many other academic venues. His work specifically on corruption and human rights has been published with the Brookings Institution and appears in New Human Rights: Recognition, Novelty, Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press 2022), commissioned by the European Commission. He has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Atlantic, Forbes, and National Public Radio, and other outlets. He has served as an expert witness in multiple cases involving corporate bribery, including in connection with the FIFA bribery scheme and U.S. Department of Justice indictments.

Professor Spalding is a member of the Frequent Visiting Faculty at the UN-founded International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) in Austria, the original Senior Editor of the FCPA Blog, and was the founding president of the American Society of International Law’s Anti-Corruption Interest Group. A JD/PhD, Professor Spalding recently completed a research grant from the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Studies Centre, and was formerly a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar based in Mumbai, India. Andy also serves as an analyst for ESPN+ broadcasts of the University of Richmond’s Division I Women’s Soccer Team, holding a coaching license from the United States Soccer Federation.