Borlini Highly Commended by Emerald
Leonardo Borlini, researcher with a EU grant at the Department of Law, is one of the recipients of the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2011. Borlini has been awarded for the article Anti-Money Laundering Programs: Empirical Assessment and Issues in Criminal Regulation (with Marco Arnone, CeMaFiR, Centre for Macroeconomics and Finance Research, Journal of Money Laundering Control (vol.13, n.3, 2010).
The article, which has been a Highly Commended Award Winner, covers the empirical assessment of anti-money laundering programs in many international institutions. Building on the data collected Borlini and Arnone have detcted the gaps to be filled in those institutions' strategies.
The Literati Network Awards for Excellence are given out by the international publisher Emerald to the best articles published in its journals in the last 12 months. Among the shortlisted articles an Outstanding paper and three Highly Commended papers are chosen.