Abstract

GUTIERREZ OSSA, Jahir Alexánder. Legal-economic evaluation on the international enterprise felony. Semest. Econ. [online]. 2011, vol.14, n.28, pp.121-136. ISSN 0120-6346.

This article evaluates the legal-economic contexts of committed felonies by international companies, and the apparent lack of capacity shown by the international penal law to control and regulate the behavior of this companies by the existent legal systems. The many attempts to prosecute this acts proves that the proper international legal structure for controlling this type of circumstances has not been properly contemplated yet. Parting from the revision of the theory fundaments and some cases, the weaknesses of international law due to the lack of articulation with economic conceptions for controlling these companies in the international markets is proven. It is concluded then that the economic penal law which is the economic analysis branch of law is applied, it can work as evaluation mechanism for enterprise economic felonies and contribute to overcome this compensation trial.

Keywords : Business regulation and legislation; penal legislation; International legislation; economic analysis of law.

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