Noam Kozlov

S.J.D. Candidate
nkozlov at sjd.law.harvard.edu

Dissertation

Regulation, Criminalization, and Hybrid Enforcement: Anticorruption and Beyond


The pervasiveness of corruption in the US and around the world has been the subject of much public and scholarly discourse, with commentators debating the effectiveness of various strategies to combat it. Anticorruption norms have been traditionally enforced largely through criminal law. Even today, it is often assumed that criminal sanctions are the primary legal apparatus for deterring and preventing corruption. But anticorruption policies increasingly incorporate civil and regulatory enforcement mechanisms, while maintaining and even expanding the traditional criminal enforcement of corruption-related offenses. Thus, contemporary anticorruption policies often employ dual frameworks that combine criminal and non-criminal mechanisms to prevent, deter, detect, and punish corruption.

The project will situate the rise of civil anticorruption enforcement within the broader interplay between the administrative state, regulatory enforcement, and criminal law. Drawing on insights from organizational economics, it will construct a normative framework for parallel anticorruption processes, considering their effects on deterrence, offender cooperation, and the reduction of harms associated with agency capture. Beyond anticorruption, the project studies how parallel enforcement enables policymakers, potential violators, and government agencies to strategically bargain over the enforcement regime that would apply to violations, while also examining prosecutorial discretion and the coercive effects of parallel enforcement.

Fields of Research and Supervisors

  • Corruption Law and Policy with Professor Matthew Stephenson, Harvard Law School, Principal Faculty Supervisor
  • Law and Economics with Professor Holger Spamann, Harvard Law School
  • Civil and Criminal Settlement Theory with Professor Kathryn Spier, Harvard Law School
  • Criminal Law and Procedure with Professor Hannah Shaffer, Harvard Law School

Additional Research Interests

  • Plea Bargaining
  • Tort Law
  • Corporate Enforcement
  • Private Enforcement

Education

  • Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate 2026 – Present
  • Harvard Law School, LL.M. 2026 (requirements fulfilled, degree waived)
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem, LL.B. 2024, summa cum laude
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem, B.A. 2024 (Economics and Philosophy)

Academic Appointments and Fellowships

  • John M. Olin Empirical Law and Finance Fellow, Harvard Program on Corporate Governance (2025-2026)

Representative Publications

  • Attempted Murder in Israeli Law, 52 Hebrew U. L. Rev. (2026) (forthcoming) (Heb.).
  • Don’t Punish Twice for the Same Crime? A New Theory for Character Evidence, 48 Tel Aviv U. L. Rev. 567 (2025) (Heb.).
  • It Was the Death of Bruton, It Was the Birth of Bruton – Why Confrontation Dismantled the Bruton Rule, and How Due Process Can Save it?, 55 St. Mary L. J. 1 (2025).
  • Sentencing Roulette: The Absurdity and Unconstitutionality of the Crime of Violence Enhancements, 15(2) U. Miami Race & Soc. Just. L. Rev. 173 (2025).
  • The Osem Decision and MFW Framework in Israeli Law: The End of Entire Fairness?, L. & Bus. J. (2023) (Heb.).

Additional Information

  • Languages: English, Hebrew, Russian

Last Updated: June 23, 2026