Dsouza, M;
(2019)
Corporate Agents in Criminal Law – An Argument for Comprehensive Identification.
(UCL Working Paper Series
6/2019).
UCL Faculty of Laws: London, UK.
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Abstract
The doctrine of identification is often used to explain how corporations can commit criminal offences in their own right. Courts identify the natural persons who can be said to personify the corporation, and attribute their conduct and mental states to the corporation. However, current versions of the doctrine of identification suffer from several well-documented shortcomings. In this paper, I consider whether these shortcomings can be remedied by reformulating the identification doctrine to treat all corporate officers and employees as embodying the corporation when acting within their real or ostensible corporate authority.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Corporate Agents in Criminal Law – An Argument for Comprehensive Identification |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3446666 |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | criminal law, criminal law theory, corporate criminal liability |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082690 |
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