Analysis On America’s Conflict Of Interests Law

Anti-corruption is always the hottest topic and hardest problem in the world. Inthe procedure of anti-corruption, confrontingconflict of interests plays a preventiverole. Conflict of interests, which means a civil servant faces interests between publicand private, and these interests rise from this civil servant’s daily job. This kind ofconflict of interests frequently causes corruption. I summarized some experience andlesson of America’s legislation on conflict of interests by studying on some relativerules about conflict of interests in America, researching into their legislationbackground, lawmaking spirit and goals, as well as analyzing some important statutes.Afterwards, I proposed on the basis of our national conditions that we shouldstructure a professional and independent conflict of interests law. A conflict ofinterests law has significant realistic meaning to stop our country’s gap in this areaand vigorously promote anti-corruption campaign, then build an honest and uprightgovernment in the end. This paper’s researching target is America’s conflict ofinterests laws. The applicable scope, the prohibitive regulations, the preventiveprovisions as well as exceptional cases are all the objects of study. The paperdesigned to figure out some part which is suitable for our national condition andworth to learn. This paper systematically analyses the issue by using theoreticalresearch means, comparative research and empirical approach. The main contentincludes the legislation survey, the key legislation interpretation, case study andenlightenment of American conflict of interests laws. The main research result is thethought of build a conflict of interests law of our country, which includes the analysisof necessity of this law, the spirit and principles of this law, the design of details ofthis law as well as some supporting methods for this law. This paper intends to borrowideas from American conflict of interests law in order to help our country’s conflict ofinterests law’s birth, at the same time, to give great strength to the anti-corruptioncareer in our country.