European sentencing principles for corporations.

The EU is strengthening its grip on national criminal law to fight corporate crime and the punishment of corporations features prominently among its concerns. Yet its policy seems unlikely to obtain pan-European results, if sentencing rules are to remain an exclusive member state policy. Europe must therefore agree on common principles which will promote consistency in sentencing throughout Europe. Strikingly, a thorough analysis of sentencing issues regarding corporations is lacking in most of theexisting literature in (continental) Europe. Therefore, the PhD research project proposes an in-depth analysis of sentencing issues concerning corporations, with a clear purpose to elaborate common European sentencing principles for corporations.

Keywords:Corporations

Disciplines:Law

Project type:PhD project