Corruption is a cancer that thwarts both political and economic development throughout the world. With the U.N. Convention on Corruption and now that corruption is a predicate offense for money laundering, it is easier to recover stolen assets that corrupt leaders and their associates have moved overseas. This course will look at how corrupt politicians steal with impunity, how offshore secrecy havens work, unilateral and multilateral efforts underway to recover and return stolen assets, legal and political challenges to asset recovery, and policies that can help prevent theft of public monies in the first place.