The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance

Jul 18, 2026

Compliance has become essential across contemporary markets, societies, and governance in both public and private domains. Although substantial empirical and practical expertise exists, there has been no unified understanding of what compliance is and how it shapes different fields and sectors. This handbook bridges disciplinary, regulatory, and legal divides, offering an integrated overview of compliance and its study, while highlighting the core mechanisms that drive compliance behavior and interventions.

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CategoryResearch & Report

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Pages1046

Reading Time43 h 56 min

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Compliance as a Cross-Disciplinary Field

Bridging Disciplinary and Legal Divides

Core Mechanisms Shaping Compliance

Contributors and Academic Scope

the cambridge handbook of compliance Compliance has become key to our contemporary markets, societies, and modes of governance across a variety of public and private domains. While this has stimulated a rich body of empirical and practical expertise on compliance, thus far, there has been no comprehensive understanding of what compliance is or how it inﬂuences various ﬁelds and sectors. The academic knowledge of compliance has remained siloed along different disciplinary domains, regulatory and legal spheres, and mechanisms and interventions. This handbook bridges these divides to provide the ﬁrst one-stop overview of what compliance is, how we can best study it, and the core mechanisms that shape it. Written by leading experts, chapters offer perspectives from across law, regulatory studies, management science, criminology, economics, sociology, and psychology. This volume is the deﬁnitive and comprehensive account of compliance. Benjamin van Rooij is Professor of Law and Society at the University of Amsterdam, and Global Professor of Law at the University of Cailfornia, Irvine, where he studies compliance and the way law shapes human and organizational conduct. He publishes in leading academic journals as well as in the New York Times, Hufﬁngton Post, The Hill, and NPR news radio. D. Daniel Sokol is a professor of law at the University of Florida, an afﬁliate professor at the University of Florida Warrington College of Business, and the senior advisor to White & Case, LLP. Sokol is also among the top ten most cited antitrust law professors in the past ﬁve years and has lectured on compliance to governments, practitioners, and academics across ﬁve continents. Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance Edited by BENJAMIN VAN ROOIJ University of Amsterdam & University of California, Irvine D. DANIEL SOKOL University of Florida Published online by Cambridge University Press University Printing House, Cambridge CB 2 8BS , United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10006, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia 314–321, 3rd Floor, Plot 3, Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi – 110025, India 79 Anson Road, \#06–04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. [www.cambridge.org](www.cambridge.org) Information on this [title: www.cambridge.org/](title: www.cambridge.org/9781108477123)[9781108477123](title: www.cambridge.org/9781108477123) [DOI](DOI: 10.1017/9781108759458)[: 10](DOI: 10.1017/9781108759458)[.](DOI: 10.1017/9781108759458)[1017](DOI: 10.1017/9781108759458)[/](DOI: 10.1017/9781108759458)[9781108759458](DOI: 10.1017/9781108759458) © Cambridge Univers

FAQs

What problem does the handbook address regarding compliance knowledge?

It addresses the lack of a comprehensive understanding of what compliance is and how it influences different fields and sectors, despite existing empirical and practical expertise.

How does the handbook structure its approach to studying compliance?

It bridges divides across disciplinary domains and regulatory and legal spheres, providing a one-stop overview and core mechanisms for studying compliance.

Who edited the Cambridge Handbook of Compliance?

Benjamin van Rooij and D. Daniel Sokol are the editors of the volume.

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