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Corporate Complicity: From Nuremberg To Rangoon - An Examination Of Forced Labor Cases And Their Impact On The Liability Of Multinational Corporations, Anita Ramasastry Jan 2002

Corporate Complicity: From Nuremberg To Rangoon - An Examination Of Forced Labor Cases And Their Impact On The Liability Of Multinational Corporations, Anita Ramasastry

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Part I of this article outlines various levels of corporate complicity as a way of understanding the spectrum of conduct for which MNCs have been criticized.This provides a necessary background for examining how courts have treated corporate actors with respect to their alleged involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity. This also helps to delineate where on this continuum MNC conduct should give rise to accomplice liability.

Part II of this article examines the post-World War II trials of German and Japanese civilian businessmen for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The war crimes prosecutions provide an important starting …