THE ORIGINS OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF LEGAL PERSONS — A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15837/aijjs.v7i3.695Keywords:
legal personal, criminal liability, European regulations, Anglo-American legal systemAbstract
The criminal liability of legal persons is an intrinsic reality of everyday life. However,this particular institution had a rather tumultuous evolution which is essential in
understanding its organic mechanisms.
Through this study we aim to analyze the concept of criminal liability of the legal
person from both diachronic and comparative perspective in order to determine the role of
this fiction in contemporary legal systems. We shall focus on the legal framework in both
European and Anglo-American systems. We also intend to identify the factors that have led to
the consecration of criminal liability.
References
Gert Vermeulen, Wendy De Bondt, Charlotte Ryckman, Liability of Legal Persons for
Offences in the E.U., Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy, European
Comission, Maklu Publishers, Antwerpen, 2012;
E. B. Diskant, Comparative Corporate Criminal Liability: Exploring the Uniquely
American Doctrine Through Comparative Criminal Procedure, Yale Law Journal, no.
/2008;
F. Streteanu, R. Chiriţă, Răspunderea penală a persoanei juridice, C. H. Beck
Publishing House, Bucharest, 2007;
W. S. Laufer, Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds: The Failure of Corporate Criminal
Liability, University of Chicago Press, 2006;
Sofie Geeroms, La responsabilité pénale de la personne morale: une étude
comparative, in Revue internationale de droit comparé, no. 3/1999;
V. M. Ciucă, Răspunderea penală a persoanei juridice - o ficţiune postmodernă
neverosimilă, in Anuar, “Petre Andrei†University Iaşi, 8th Tome /1998;
M. Lizee, De la capacite organique et des responsabilites delictulle et penale, McGill
Law Journal, no. 41/1995;
Leonard Heschel Leigh, Strict and vicarious liability, Sweet and Maxwell Limited,
London, 1982;
Leonard Heschel Leigh, The Criminal Liability of Corporations and Other Groups, in
Otawwa Law review, vol. 9/1977.
