Will a landmark war crimes trial usher in an era of corporate accountability?

A groundbreaking criminal case against a company accused of war crimes in South Sudan is now underway in Sweden, drawing parallels with the corporate complicity trials of Nuremberg in 1949. The trial in Stockholm against executives of the Swedish oil giant Lundin is expected to change the landscape of corporate accountability for international crimes.

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