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The Differential Management of Financial Illegalisms: Assigning Responsibilities in the Libor Scandal

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Date
2019
Dewey
Sociologie économique
Sujet
law; finance
Journal issue
Law & Society Review
Volume
53
Number
4
Publication date
2019
Article pages
1233-1265
Publisher
Wiley
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12442
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/20284
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Author
Angeletti, Thomas
184082 Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales [IRISSO]
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Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Abstract (EN)
How, in a context of growing critiques of financialization, can law contribute to protecting the legitimacy of finance? This paper argues that the assignment of responsibilities between individuals and organizations plays a decisive role, using the recent Libor scandal as an empirical illustration. To do so, the paper offers a Foucauldian framework, the differential management of financial illegalisms, dedicated to the study of illegalities in financial capitalism. The comparison of the legal treatment of two manipulations of Libor, this key benchmark in financial markets, reveals how mid‐level traders have been the object of criminal prosecution, while law undervalued the role of top managers and organizations. To capture how differential management is performed in practice, I analyze precisely how the conflict‐resolution devices (criminal trial vs. settlement) and the social categorizations prevailing in the two manipulations of Libor favor different forms of responsibility, individual or organizational. I conclude by exploring the implications of law's relationship to financial legitimacy.

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