This course examines the effects of corruption, identifies the contexts within which it flourishes, explores means of measuring it, and analyses the opportunity structure for corruption. The United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) has now been ratified by 165 countries demonstrating that there is now an international consensus both that preventing and addressing corruption is a high global priority.. At its core, the Convention promotes key transparency and accountability principles that are of equal importance to both the public and private sectors and civil society. The course also exposes students to other regional instruments of importance such as Inter-American Convention against Corruption, OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials and the AU Convention, Council of Europe Conventions, OAS Convention, and EU Instruments. Students will be given a snapshot of the emerging anti-corruption legal and governance landscape for the purpose of analyzing the forms, causes, cost, risks and prevention and law enforcement remedies associated with the global phenomenon of corruption. The scope of the course reflects the comprehensive nature of UNCAC by assessing the fight against corruption including; prevention, criminalization, international cooperation and asset recovery.