Criminal Justice System and Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Violations

This article discusses whether it is possible and recommendable that corporate criminal responsibility should be introduced for violations of human rights and humanitarian law and that the domestic courts as well as the international Criminal Court should therefore have jurisdiction over such legal entities. This article discusses whether it is possible and recommendable that corporate criminal responsibility should be introduced for violations of human rights and humanitarian law and that the domestic courts as well as the international Criminal Court should therefore have jurisdiction over such legal entities. The first section of the article studies the recent works done by the UN Human Rights Council and also Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the framework of a project for improving accountability and access to remedy for victims of business-related human rights abuses. The second part while reviewing the Nuremberg military trials and discussions during the 1998 Rome Conference explores key questions de lege ferenda as well as current policy and legal matters