LEADERSHIP AND LIABILITY: STRENGTHENING CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY THROUGH LEGAL DOCTRINE

Abstract

This paper is conceived based on the current focus of the corporate international community on finding           ways   to ensure the accountability, accountability of corporate entities for their activities that result in human rights human rights violations. It focuses on the 2016 Policy Paper of the violation, Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court international             (ICC), which expressed the Prosecutor’s intention to prioritize the crimes, senior investigation and prosecution of certain environmental crimes that corporate        have extensive human rights impacts primarily resulting from the officers, activities of corporate entities. The paper argues that the complex superior structure of transnational corporations presents considerable responsibility.  practical obstacles to the investigation and prosecution of such crimes. However, through the application of the scarcely used ‘superior responsibility’ doctrine, this paper suggests that there could be a chance of overcoming the corporate complexity and improving corporate accountability for human rights violations that result in international crimes.