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Book SynopsisThe Law of Whistleblowing: Cross-disciplinary, Contextual and Comparative Perspectives provides a contextual and cross-disciplinary analysis of legal responses to whistleblowing from a comparative perspective. Examining developments in criminal, labour, corporate and administrative law, contributions in this volume provide one of the first comprehensive analyses of the emerging multi-level legal framework to protect whistleblowers.
Table of ContentsProtecting Whistleblowers: The Challenges of Developing an Effective Legal Framework Valsamis Mitsilegas and Santiago Wortman Jofre From Obscurity to Limelight: Whistleblowers’ Protection under EU Law Dimitrios Kafteranis 1 Introduction: Blowing the Whistle at the Heart of the European Union 2 The Role of the European Parliament Towards the Adoption of an EU Legal Framework on the Protection of Whistleblowers 3 From the Proposal to the Final Text of the Directive on the Protection of Persons Who Report Breaches of Union 4 Remarks on the Directive and Its Special Relationship with Criminal Law 5 Concluding Remarks A Decade of Fast-track Whistleblowing Legislation: The Quest for Effective Protection of Whistleblowers in Greece Anna Damaskou and Antonios Baltas 1 The Significance of Culture in Enacting and Implementing Whistleblowing Legislation Effectively 2 The State of Corruption and Whistleblower Protection in an EU Member State Lacking Dedicated Whistleblowing Legislation 3 Can Corruption Be De-rooted without Dedicated Whistleblowing Legislation? 4 “… And Then There Was Light”: The Enactment of Dedicated Whistleblowing Legislation in Greece 5 The Novartis Scandal in Greece: A Stress-Test for the Greek Whistleblowing Legislation and Culture 6 The Efficiency of Whistleblowers’ Protection in Greece in View of the Transposition of the EU Directive on the Protection of Whistleblowers 7 The Transpositon of the EU Directive on the Protection of Whistleblowers into the Greek Legal Order 8 The Significance of Culture in Providing Effective Whistleblowing Protection under the Demands of the New Era Protecting Whistleblowers in Israel: The Gap Between the Law and its Implementation Noa Yosef 1 Introduction 2 Background 3 Israel’s Main Laws for Protecting Whistleblowers 4 Criticism against the Protection of Employees Law and State Comptroller Law 5 Criminal Laws and Civil-Labour Laws – Complementary Mechanisms 6 Conclusion: More Is Better Than One Whistleblowing and Cooperating Witnesses in Context: The Argentinian Perspective Hugo Wortman Jofre and Ana Clara Rivero 1 Introduction 2 The Role of Whistleblowers and Cooperating Witnesses 3 Essential Discussions about Cooperating Witnesses
