Prosecuting Corporations for Genocide

ISBN-13: 9780190238896 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 280 str.

Michael J. Kelly; Luis Moreno-Ocampo

Opis

Modern corporations are key participants in the new globalized economy. As such, they have been accorded tremendous latitude and granted extensive rights. However, accompanying obligations have not been similarly forthcoming. Chief among them is the obligation not to commit atrocities or human rights abuses in the pursuit of profit.

Multinational corporations are increasingly complicit in genocides that occur in the developing world. While they benefit enormously from the crime, they are immune from prosecution at the international level. Prosecuting Corporations for Genocide proposes new legal pathways to ensure such companies are held criminally liable for their conduct by creating a framework for international criminal jurisdiction. If a state or a person commits genocide, they are punished, and international law demands such. Nevertheless, corporate actors have successfully avoided this through an array of legal arguments which Professor Kelly challenges. He demonstrates how international criminal jurisdiction should be extended over corporations for complicity in genocide and makes the case that it should be done promptly.

Recenzje

When commercial corporations do not respond properly to the carrot of praise for social responsibility, they may need to be hit with the stick of criminal prosecution, particularly when their activities amount to complicity in genocide and other international crimes. Although there has been much talk about the criminal law option, it remains largely dormant. This thoughtful and very useful book becomes the standard reference for the law and practice in this field." William Schabas, Professor of International Law, Middlesex University, London

O autorze

Michael J. Kelly is Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Creighton University. He is president of the U.S. National Section of L'Association International du Droit Pénal (AIDP), a Paris-based society of international criminal law scholars, judges and attorneys founded in 1924 that enjoys consultative status with the United Nations. Professor Kelly is a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars and directs a summer program on genocide, the Holocaust, and International Criminal Law in Nuremberg, Germany in cooperation with Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He also serves as Co-Chair of the American Bar Association's Task Force on Internet Governance, and served from 2012-2015 as a member of the President's Advisory Committee on Global Engagement for the American Association of Law Schools (AALS).