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State Crimes in the ILC Draft Articles on State Responsibility: Insights from Municipal Experience with Corporate Crimes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

David D. Caron*
Affiliation:
School of Law, University of California at Berkeley

Abstract

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Type
State Responsibility in a Multiactor World
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1998

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References

1 When referring to corporate and state crimes collectively, I will use the term organizational crimes.

2 U.S. Participation in the UN: Report by the President to the Congress 239-40 (1969).

3 In the 1995 Summary Record of the ILC’s 47th Session, one member is reported as having said that an unspecified analogy to corporate crimes was “extremely tenuous.”

4 Fischel, Daniel R. & Sykes, Alan O., Corporate Crime, 25 J. Legal Stud. 319 (1996)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Model Penal Code and Commentaries art. 2.07, § 332 (1985).

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9 See, e.g., Khanna, V.S., Corporate Criminal Liability: What Purpose Does It Serve?, 109 Harv. L. Rev. 1477 (1996)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10 Coffee, supra note 7, at 1877.

11 Coffee, supra note 6, at 389-93.

12 ld. at 410.