Essays about: "Sanctions for Legal Persons"

Found 4 essays containing the words Sanctions for Legal Persons.

  1. 1. Corporate Criminal Liability in International Criminal Law "ex nihilo nihil fit"

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Armina Savanovic; [2017]
    Keywords : Corporate Criminal Liability; Criminal Law; International Criminal Law; STL; ICC; ICTY; ICTR; Jurisdiction; Universal Jurisdiction; Sanctions for Legal Persons; International Human Rights Law; Human Rights; Atrocity Crimes; Genocide; Crimes Against Humanity; Grave Crimes; Theory of Identification; Vicarious Liability; Corporate Complicity; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The Nuremberg Charter introduced corporate criminal liability into international law and the great American Chief Prosecutor Justice Robert Jackson gave a promise that any legal person who commits crimes prescribed by international law shall be prosecuted and punished according to international criminal law. However, during this period of time, a corporation was never prosecuted per se as the sitting judges did not seem to have the will to dwell on the establishment of the elements of crime that needed to be satisfied in order to impute criminal liability on a corporate body. READ MORE

  2. 2. The Lisbon Treaty and EU Criminal law : A Feasibility Analysis For The Creation of Deterrent Legislation Against White-Collar Crime at EU Level

    University essay from Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Madeleine Heijne; [2013]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The hypothesis of this thesis is that deterrent regulation could have had prevented or, arguably, at least minimised the myriad forms of fraudulent misrepresentation at the core of the economic crisis. Therefore, white-collar crime had, and has, a central position in causing the economic crisis and deterrent regulation will be essential in reducing the risk of a crisis of this scale infecting in our legal systems again. READ MORE

  3. 3. Article 44 RVD as the main rule for intra-Community place of supply of services B2B: legal issues arising at its application. Is the implementation in Italy in line with article 44 RVD and the EU laws?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrätt

    Author : Patrizia Michelini; [2013]
    Keywords : art 44 RVD; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This Thesis is aimed at clarifying the meaning of article 44 RVD in order to determine which legal issues arise at its implementation, both at European and at Italian level. Art 44 RVD, as the main rule for B2B intra-Community supply of services, has a fundamental impact on the assessment of VAT liability among business operators in order to define on whom, where and when the liability arises. READ MORE

  4. 4. Anti-Corruption Regulation in Sweden and Abroad

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Amanda Wassén; [2010]
    Keywords : comparative law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The negative effects that corruption has on both individual nations and the global society as a whole are known and well documented. Still, an estimated one trillion US dollars (US $1.000 billion) is paid each year in bribes worldwide and both individuals and organizations testify to engaging in corrupt behavior. READ MORE