A Marxist Reading of International Corporate Criminal Responsibility
The Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice invites you to a seminar with Anastasiya Kotova on "On Corporate Harm, Mute Compulsion, and Ideology: a Marxist Reading of International Corporate Criminal Responsibility"
Seminar
Date:
Monday 14 April 2025Time:
15.00 – 17.00Location:
Faculty room, C824, level 8, South House, Frescati campus
Description:
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. Although international corporate criminal responsibility (ICCR) remains lex ferenda, legal discussions surrounding it produce certain ideological effects. To understand how these ideological effects are related to broader notion of corporate harm, I develop a theoretical framework that locates the necessity of corporate harm at the intersection of impersonal domination of capital and capital-nature relationship. I argue ICCR normalises much of ubiquitous and systemic corporate harm and naturalises the corporate form: in so doing, ICCR helps to reproduce the corporate form by insulating it from the consequences of corporate harm.
Bio:
Anastasiya Kotova holds a doctoral degree in public international law from Lund University. Her research interests include Marxist theory of international law, imperialism and international law, international criminal law, and the role of corporation in international law.
Registration:
SCILJ appreciates your registration at scilj@juridicum.su.se before 10 April 2025.
Last updated: 2025-03-13
Source: Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice