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• Title: Ending Corporate Impunity: How to Really Curb the Pillaging of Natural Resources.
• Author : Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 329 KB

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When delegates were negotiating the creation of the International Criminal Court, there was debate, among other things, as to who would fall under the jurisdiction of the court. Due to time constraints, negotiators settled on a narrow extension of customary international law and limited the court's jurisdiction to "natural persons" only. This settlement has had an unsettling effect when it comes to "resource conflicts." Some corporations, as legal persons, and their officers have been able to pillage the natural resources from war-torn countries with little to no liability under international criminal law. This Note considers one example of pillaging by both officers and corporations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After analyzing this example, this Note proposes amending the International Criminal Court's jurisdiction statute to include corporations. Such an amendment will ensure that both officers and corporations are held liable for violations of international criminal law. I. INTRODUCTION

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