Essays about: "Corporate Criminal Liability"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Corporate Criminal Liability.

  1. 1. Corporate impunity and the ‘accountability gap’ in Sub-Saharan Africa: is the successful prosecution of corporate involvement in atrocity crimes within reach?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten; Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Joseph Keogh; [2022]
    Keywords : International criminal law; corporate criminal liability; transnational corporations; atrocity crime; corporate impunity; Africa; Global North; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Although transnational corporations (hereinafter TNCs) often far outmatch States in terms of resources and influence over the direction of the world economy, they are generally unaccounted for when operating outside the territories in which they are incorporated (hereinafter ‘home States’). This thesis will look specifically at those TNCs that rely on natural resource extraction as their main source of profit. READ MORE

  3. 2. Individual Criminal Responsibility for Corporate Leaders. A Comparison between International Criminal Law and Domestic Law

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Caroline Halfvarson; [2022]
    Keywords : Wirtschaftsvölkerstrafrecht; corporate criminal liability; corporate criminal responsibility; substantial contribution; individual criminal liability; international criminal law; criminal law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Uppsatsen undersöker den internationella straffrättens förväntningar på ansvarighållandet av företagsledare på individnivå. Vidare utreds huruvida nationell rätt, här svensk rätt i jämförelse med tysk, uppfyller de krav och förväntningar som den internationella straffrätten ställer på nationell reglering. READ MORE

  4. 3. Corporate Criminal Liability - time for Sweden to look beyond individual criminal responsibility?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Rasmus Hane-Weijman Jansson; [2018]
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  5. 4. 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

  6. 5. Corporate Criminal Liability for Human Trafficking in the EU : a Legal Obligation for Member States?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Astrid Saraiva Leao; [2016]
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