June 2013

NEWS | DEU | ROXIN co-hosts the III. International Symposium for Young Penalists

The ROXIN Alliance co-hosted the III International Symposium for Young Penalists in collaboration with the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich and the German National Group of the International Association of Penal Law, from the 12th – 14th of June 2013 in Munich, Germany

The ROXIN Alliance co-hosted the III International Symposium for Young Penalists in collaboration with the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich and the German National Group of the International Association of Penal Law, from the 12th – 14th of June 2013 in Munich, Germany. The core theme of the symposium was ‘Corporate Criminal Liability’, which was evaluated not only from a national law perspective but also from an international and interdisciplinary perspective.

The symposium was divided into six panels covering corporate criminal liability from diverse approaches. The panels included:

• Regulatory Options in Corporate Criminal Liability
• Attributing Criminal Liability to Corporation
• Corporate Crimes
• Criminal Compliance and Corporate Criminal Procedure
• Transnational Corporate Criminal Liability
• Psychology, Sociology and Economics of Corporate Criminal Liability

The symposium was attended by eighty participants representing more than thirty countries spanning all five continents. Leading international organizations including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Basel Institute of Governance, World Economic Forum, and the International Anticorruption Academy also participated in the symposium through their representatives. Key note addresses at the symposium were delivered by Prof. Dr. Claus Tiedemann, Dr. William Laufer (Wharton), and Dr. Klaus Moosmayer (Chief Compliance Officer, SIEMENS), merging both sides of corporate criminal liability – academics and practice.

The papers that were presented by the participants and the contributions made by the keynote speakers will be included in a book titles ‘Corporate Criminal Liability’ which will be published by Springer Publishing House. The book will be available not only in hard copy but all other feasible formats including as an eBook, a printed copy, a Kindle edition and a low-priced printed MyCopy for eBook licensees.