Corporate criminal responsibility for war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law : the impact of the business and human rights movement / Alex Batesmith
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Chapter
Title:
Corporate criminal responsibility for war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law : the impact of the business and human rights movement
Author zone:
Alex Batesmith
In:
Contemporary challenges to the laws of war : essays in honour of professor Peter Rowe
Editor:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014
Physical description:
p. 285-312
Languages:
English
Abstract:
The object of this chapter is to analyse the extent to which what might be described as the business and human rights "movement" is having and impact upon the prosecution of corporations, or their executives and employees, for violations of interantional law, chiefly IHL or ICL, at both the international and domestic levels. The historical and current legal context is examined and the revision of attitudes towards corporate prosecutions discussed. It is demonstrated that the new approach, advocated by proponents of the business and human rights movement, will lead to changes in practice and to the increased likelihood of business actors being held accountable for involvement in international crimes. It is argued that this would better reflect the true culpability for mass crimes committed in modern-day armed conflicts
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