The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance

Compliance has become key to our contemporary markets, societies, and modes of governance across a variety of public and private domains. While this has stimulated a rich body of empirical and practical expertise on compliance, thus far, there has been no comprehensive understanding of what compliance is or how it influences various fields and sectors. The academic knowledge of compliance has remained siloed along different disciplinary domains, regulatory and legal spheres, and mechanisms and interventions. This handbook bridges these divides to provide the first one-stop overview of what compliance is, how we can best study it, and the core mechanisms that shape it. Written by leading experts, chapters offer perspectives from across law, regulatory studies, management science, criminology, economics, sociology, and psychology. This volume is the definitive and comprehensive account of compliance.

Benjamin van Rooij is Professor of Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine Law School, where he studies compliance and the way law shapes human and organizational conduct. He publishes in leading academic journals as well as in the New York Times, Huffington Post, The Hill and NPR news radio.

D. Daniel Sokol is a Professor of Law at the University of Florida, Affiliate Professor, University of Florida Warrington College of Business, and Senior Advisor to White & Case, LLP. Sokol is also among the top 10 most cited antitrust law professors in the past five years and has lectured on compliance to governments, practitioners, and academics across five continents.