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Corporate accountability and transitional justice

Authors

  • Sabine Michalowski University of Essex, Reino Unido
  • Juan Pablo Cardona Chaves University of Essex, Reino Unido
No. 11 (2015): Anuario de Derechos Humanos 2015
https://doi.org/10.5354/adh.v0i11.37498

Abstract

Traditionally, transitional justice processes do not address the role of corporations in dictatorships or in armed conflicts that give rise to the need for dealing with grave and systematic human rights violations. However, there is a growing awareness that in many contexts corporations contribute to these violations, often in the form of corporate complicity with the principal violators. An argument can therefore be made that to achieve the aims of transitional justice and establish a holistic narrative of the past as well as obtain justice and reparations for victims requires investigating and addressing the role of corporate actors. This article uses the example of Colombia’s Justice and Peace process to show some of the complexities, opportunities and challenges that arise if transitional justice measures focus primarily on criminal law and create a specific legal framework, outside of the ordinary justice systems, only for a limited group of primary perpetrators, in the Colombian case for members of the armed groups who demobilised. It is argued that the exclusion of corporate actors in contexts where their role is regarded as significant leads to victims seeking alternatives ways to obtain justice and that both victims and corporations would benefit if transitional justice mechanisms addressed the role of corporations.

Keywords:

Corporate accountability, corporate criminal responsibility, transitional justice, Justice and Peace Process

Author Biographies

Sabine Michalowski, University of Essex, Reino Unido

Professor of Law, University of Essex, Director of the Essex Transitional Justice Network. First and Secon Legal State Exam (Germany), Diploma in Comparative Law (Paris II), PhD (Sheffield). Entre sus últimas publicaciones se cuentan: Sabine Michalowski (Ed.) Corporate Accountability in the Context of Transitional Justice, Routledge 2013; Sabine Michalowski, ‘Doing Business with a Bad Actor: How to Draw the Line Between Legitimate Commercial Activities and Those that Trigger Corporate Complicity Liability’, 50(3) Texas Journal of International Law 403-464 (2015); Sabine Michalowski, ‘The mens rea standard for corporate aiding and abetting liability – conclusions from international criminal law’, 18(2) UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 237-274 (2014), Sabine Michalowski, ‘No Complicity Liability for Funding Gross Human Rights Violations?’ 30 Berkeley Journal of International Law 451-524 (2012).

Juan Pablo Cardona Chaves, University of Essex, Reino Unido

Abogado, Magíster en Derecho de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, ex-Fiscal de la Dirección de Fiscalías de Justicia Transicional en Colombia y estudiante del LLM en Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, Universidad de Essex, Reino Unido.

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Michalowski, S., & Cardona Chaves, J. P. (2015). Corporate accountability and transitional justice. Anuario De Derechos Humanos, (11), pág. 173–182. https://doi.org/10.5354/adh.v0i11.37498
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