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Article

26 Feb 2016

Author:
Anuj Agrawal, Bar & Bench (India)

In Conversation with Wolfgang Kaleck, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (Part 2)

Wolfgang Kaleck is the General Secretary of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. In the second part of the interview with Bar & Bench's Anuj Agrawal, the civil rights lawyer talks about the criminal liability of corporations, Edward Snowden, and more...So since the late 1940s it is confirmed that corporations, or managers of corporations, can be held accountable under criminal law. Most people don’t know many cases but we have some. We are in the middle of a struggle where we hold that corporations have to be held accountable. Meanwhile, the corporate community is trying to immunize themselves from any sort of legal regulations...[Refers to Nestlé]