Prosecuting Corporations for GenocideMichael J Kelly
Michael J. Kelly, a legal scholar, has developed an argument to prosecute corporations for genocide. Corporations, he argues, are sometimes “enablers” of genocide, “lurking in the shadows, whispering directions to dictators and rebels” (p. 14). The time has come, Kelly says, for corporations that en...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2017
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 500-502 |
| Review of: | Prosecuting corporations for genocide (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016) (Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E.)
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| Summary: | Michael J. Kelly, a legal scholar, has developed an argument to prosecute corporations for genocide. Corporations, he argues, are sometimes “enablers” of genocide, “lurking in the shadows, whispering directions to dictators and rebels” (p. 14). The time has come, Kelly says, for corporations that enjoy rights as legal persons also to have the same obligations as legal persons., Basing his argument on precedents, especially regarding corporate criminal liability in common law jurisdictions, Kelly maintains that there is sufficient legal reason to justify prosecution of corporations for conspiracy to commit genocide and for joint criminal (genocidal) enterprises, if not for more direct acts of genocide. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcx047 |