Alessandra de Tommaso

Corporate Liability and International Criminal Law

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides insight into the evolution of the debate on the international criminal liability of corporations to facilitate discussion on the possibility of including corporations within the scope of international criminal law. It offers suggestions for developing an amendment to hold them accountable under the Statute of the ICC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781032487410
• ISBN-10: 1032487410
• Artikelnr.: 68473704

Autorenporträt

Alessandra De Tommaso is Lecturer in Law at Middlesex University, UK. She teaches Business and Human Rights, EU Law, and Evidence. Her research interests are in the areas of International Criminal Law and Business and Human Rights. She is a qualified lawyer in Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword x
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
1 Corporate Criminal Liability and the Nuremberg Experience 8
1.1 Introduction 8
1.2 Criminal Organisations at Trial: The Nuremberg Experience 10
1.2.1 The Origin of the Prosecution's Case against Organisations 12
1.2.2 The London Charter 14
1.2.3 The Nuremberg Trial and Judgment 15
1.2.4 Crimes of Membership v Corporate Criminal Liability 19
1.3 Post-World War II Trials: The Industrialist Cases 23
1.3.1 Business Complicity in International Crimes: From the Failure of the
Krupp Case at Nuremberg to the US Industrialist Trials 24
1.3.2 The Preparatory Phase of the U.S. Industrialist Cases: Pomerantz's
Memorandum 27
1.3.3 The Industrialist Cases 31
1.4 Extra-Judicial Sanctioning of Farben 39
1.5 Conclusion 41
References 43
2 The Question of Corporations in the Aftermath of the Nuremberg Trials 47
2.1 Introduction 47
2.2 The 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide 48
2.3 The ILC Draft Code of Offences against Peace and Security of Mankind:
An Early Debate on the Criminal Liability of Legal Entities 54
2.4 The Liability of Legal Persons in the Early Stage of the Debate on an
International Criminal Court: The Role of the 1951 and 1953 Committees on
International Criminal Jurisdiction 58
2.4.1 The 1951 Committee on International Criminal Jurisdiction 60
2.4.2 The 1953 Committee on International Criminal Jurisdiction 63
2.5 Conclusion 67
References 68
3 The Adoption of the Rome Statute: Corporate Criminal Liability's Swan
Song? 72
3.1 Introduction 72
3.2 Resuming the Drafting of the Statute of the ICC: The ILC's Work
(1982-1994) 73
3.3 The Establishment of the Ad Hoc Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and
Rwanda 78
3.4 The Negotiation of the Statute of the ICC (1995-1998) 81
3.4.1 From the 1995 Ad Hoc Committee to the 1996 Preparatory Committee 82
3.4.2 The French Proposal on Corporate Criminal Liability: Origin and Early
Debate 84
3.5 The 1998 Rome Conference for an International Criminal Court 89
3.5.1 The Final Working Paper on the Liability of Juridical Persons: The
Last Stage of the Debate 94
3.6 Conclusion 100
References 101
4 Corporate Criminal Liability after Rome: International Developments in
the Aftermath of the Adoption of the ICC Statute 107
4.1 Introduction 107
4.2 The Special Tribunal for Lebanon's Jurisdiction over Legal Persons: An
Analysis of the 2014 Contempt Cases 109
4.2.1 The First Contempt Decision: Judge Baragwanath's View on Corporate
Criminal Liability 110
4.2.2 Challenging Corporate Criminal Liability: The Point of View of Judge
Lettieri 116
4.2.3 The Decision of the Appeals Panel in the New TV S.A.L. Case 121
4.3 Corporate Criminal Liability within the Statute of the (Proposed)
African Court of Justice and Human Rights 128
4.3.1 Article 46C and the Principle of Attribution: An Organisational
Approach to Corporate Criminal Liability 131
4.3.2 Sentencing System 138
4.4 The ILC's Draft Articles on Crimes against Humanity 140
4.4.1 The 2016 Debate on the Liability of Legal Persons 142
4.4.2 The Drafting Committee's Draft Paragraph on the Liability of Legal
Persons 149
4.4.3 States' Comments on the Draft Provision on the Liability of Legal
Persons 152
4.5 Conclusion 157
References 158
5 National Developments and the Comparative Law Argument in the Debate on
Corporate Criminal Liability 166
5.1 Introduction 166
5.2 The Comparative Law Argument 167
5.2.1 Limitations of the Comparative Law Argument 171
5.3 A Step Further: Corporate Criminal Liability as a General Principle of
Law 178
5.3.1 General Principles of Law: Practical Implications 179
5.4 Conclusion 185
References 186
6 Translating Corporate Criminal Liability into the International Criminal
Justice System: Amending the ICC Statute 191
6.1 Introduction 191
6.2 The Applicability of the Rome Statute to Corporations: Some
Considerations on the Mode of Attribution 192
6.3 Corporate Criminal Liability Arising from a Lack of Due Supervision 200
6.4 Reverse Onus, the Presumption of Innocence and Corporate Defendants 205
6.5 Corporations and Procedural Guarantees 213
6.5.1 Representation and the Right to Be Present at Trial: Article 63 ICC
St. 215
6.6 A Sentencing System for Corporate Defendants 221
6.7 Conclusion 228
References 229
Conclusions 235
Index 243