Dubovik. O.L. Criminal legal influence on legal entities: comparative analysis of international, European, German and Russian law.

Abstract: The article includes the review of the First Russian-German Criminal Law Seminar, which took place in the Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov on June 28, 2012, where the participants attempted to fi nd solutions to topical problems of criminal responsibility of legal entities, and to establish the perspectives for their implementation. The seminar was organized by the Law Faculty of the Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov and by the Institute named after Max Planck on Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg, FRG). The problems of legal responsibility of legal entities are acutely topical, and they have been attracting attention by both Russian and foreign legal scholars for many years. The author analyses effi ciency and proportionality of introduction of criminal responsibility of collective subjects, as well as the correlation of means of criminal legal infl uence with the administrative and civil law measures. The Russian and foreign specialists express various opinions both for and against the introduction of responsibility of legal entities into the criminal codes. The theses show the experience of various states, as well as the historic analysis of this issue.

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