Transnationale Sanktionsverfahren gegen Verbände

The trend that criminal prosecution is increasingly taking place across borders has been thoroughly investigated by legal scholars in recent years. Most of these studies, however, have focused on criminal proceedings against individuals, while the growing prosecution of legal entities has been treated only marginally. Yet the perspective on legal persons is particularly challenging, since the rules and concepts developed so far with regard to the cross-border prosecution of individuals can only be applied to legal persons (if at all) with modifications. The present study addresses this task by focusing on three problems that are particularly important from a practical perspective (jurisdiction, double jeopardy, mutual legal assistance).