Prosecuting Corporations for Genocide explains how multinational corporations should be criminally liable for their role in financing or otherwise supporting atrocities like genocide. This book demonstrates how international criminal jurisdiction should be extended over corporations for atrocities and makes the case that it should be done promptly.
Prosecuting Corporations for Genocide explains how multinational corporations should be criminally liable for their role in financing or otherwise supporting atrocities like genocide. This book demonstrates how international criminal jurisdiction should be extended over corporations for atrocities and makes the case that it should be done promptly.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
* Note on Sources * List of Illustrations * Foreword -- by Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Founding Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court * Acknowledgments * 1. Introduction * 2. The Corporation as an Atrocity Contributor * a. Historical Perspective - British East India / Dutch East India * b. Recent history - IG Farben - WWI, WWII * c. Modern history - Kiobel litigation * 3. The Corporation as a Subject of International Law * a. Status as a "Legal Person" * b. Application of the Genocide Convention * c. Recognition by the International Court of Justice * d. International Criminal Tribunal Jurisdiction * 4. Modes of Criminal Liability under International Law * a. Proving Genocide * b. Complicity to Genocide * c. Command Responsibility * d. Aiding and Abetting * e. Joint Criminal Enterprise (JCE) * 5. Case Studies: Corporate Complicity in Genocide * a. Chinese National Petroleum Corporation and the Darfur Genocide * b. German Chemical Corporations and the Kurdish Genocide * 6. Prosecuting Corporations for Genocide: The Domestic versus the International Path * a. Universal Jurisdiction over Jus Cogens conduct * b. Domestic Prosecution * c. International Prosecution * 7. Arguments Against Prosecuting Corporations for Genocide * a. Legal Critiques * b. Policy Critiques * c. Economic Critiques * 8. Conclusion * Appendix 1: Arrest Warrant for President al-Bashir on Charges of Genocide * Appendix 2: Unclassified List of German Corporations Implicated in Developing Iraq's Chemical Weapons Program * Appendix 3: U.S. Department of Justice Instructions for Prosecution Corporations * Appendix 4: Bill C-45: Amendments to the Criminal Code Affecting the Criminal Liability of Organizations * About the Author * Index
* Note on Sources * List of Illustrations * Foreword -- by Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Founding Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court * Acknowledgments * 1. Introduction * 2. The Corporation as an Atrocity Contributor * a. Historical Perspective - British East India / Dutch East India * b. Recent history - IG Farben - WWI, WWII * c. Modern history - Kiobel litigation * 3. The Corporation as a Subject of International Law * a. Status as a "Legal Person" * b. Application of the Genocide Convention * c. Recognition by the International Court of Justice * d. International Criminal Tribunal Jurisdiction * 4. Modes of Criminal Liability under International Law * a. Proving Genocide * b. Complicity to Genocide * c. Command Responsibility * d. Aiding and Abetting * e. Joint Criminal Enterprise (JCE) * 5. Case Studies: Corporate Complicity in Genocide * a. Chinese National Petroleum Corporation and the Darfur Genocide * b. German Chemical Corporations and the Kurdish Genocide * 6. Prosecuting Corporations for Genocide: The Domestic versus the International Path * a. Universal Jurisdiction over Jus Cogens conduct * b. Domestic Prosecution * c. International Prosecution * 7. Arguments Against Prosecuting Corporations for Genocide * a. Legal Critiques * b. Policy Critiques * c. Economic Critiques * 8. Conclusion * Appendix 1: Arrest Warrant for President al-Bashir on Charges of Genocide * Appendix 2: Unclassified List of German Corporations Implicated in Developing Iraq's Chemical Weapons Program * Appendix 3: U.S. Department of Justice Instructions for Prosecution Corporations * Appendix 4: Bill C-45: Amendments to the Criminal Code Affecting the Criminal Liability of Organizations * About the Author * Index
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