Why international courts have been so impotent at prosecuting businessmen? Why international law has shielded companies from responsibility in atrocity crimes? Would prosecuting a CEO be subversive enough or would it be cosmetic change? What if international law has actually hampered national efforts to hold corporations responsible? In a bold conversation, law professors Joanna Kyriakakis and Mark Drumbl attempt to unpack the reasons why so little has been achieved in going after the money trail.
There are a growing number of criminal proceedings aimed at holding multinational companies accountable for their direct or indirect role in international crimes or serious human rights violations. These include complicity in war crimes, complicity with dictatorships or environmental destruction. NGOs and victim communities are fighting to undermine the legal protections for economic actors involved in such abuse.
NPR's Michel Martin discusses the laws of war and whether those have evolved over time with Mark Drumbl, director of the Transnational Law Institute at the Washington and Lee University School of Law.
NPR's Michel Martin discusses the laws of war and whether those have evolved over time with Mark Drumbl, director of the Transnational Law Institute at the Washington and Lee University School of Law.