Breakfast Briefing with Anastasiya Kotova
Complicity in Atrocity: How Does International Criminal Law Frame What Corporate Harm is Properly Criminal
Abstract
The legal debates on corporate responsibility in international criminal law have been ongoing since the negotiation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). While early debates considered the opportunities for domestic enforcement that the introduction of corporate criminal responsibility at the international level would produce, soon the focus of the debate shifted towards the ICC as the readily available enforcement opportunity. This presentation discusses how the acceptance of the ICC as the institutional framework for international corporate criminal responsibility shaped how international criminal lawyers think about what corporate harm qualifies as criminal. Specifically, I argue that the focus on ‘complicity in atrocity’ that is thereby produced helps normalise mundane and ubiquitous corporate harm.
About the Speaker
Anastasiya Kotova holds a PhD in public international law from the University of Lund (Sweden). Her research interests include international criminal law, general international law, as well as theory of and critical approaches to international law.
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