van Sliedregt, E., (2025) The Future of International Criminal Justice is Corporate, Journal of International Criminal Justice

“The article explores the evolving recognition of corporate liability within international criminal law (ICL), traditionally centred on individual criminal responsibility. It underscores the involvement of multinational corporations in international crimes, human rights abuse and environmental harm. The article examines domestic and international legal frameworks, including the Malabo Protocol, which explicitly incorporates corporate liability for core international crimes and transnational crimes. It contrasts nominalist and organizational models of corporate liability and addresses conceptual challenges such as corporate intent and agency. The article advocates for integrating corporate liability into ICL responses to atrocity crimes, emphasizing its potential to bridge the Global North-South asymmetry in liability and provide equitable justice.”

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van Sliedregt, E., (2024) A New ICC Policy on Complementarity? Let’s Fast Forward to Universal Jurisdiction Allocation, Just Security Blog

“The International Criminal Court (ICC) is not a world court. Its membership does not include some of the most powerful States: United States, China, India. Still, 124 States have ratified the Rome Statute of the ICC and have accepted the Court’s power to investigate and prosecute serious violations of international law. The arrest warrants issued against Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Commissioner of Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova as well as the Prosecutor’s requests for arrest warrants in the situation in Palestine have raised the ICC’s profile as a player on the international scene. The Court is, however, an institution with limited (financial) means, requiring it to be selective in which cases it takes on […]”

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