Criminal Liability of Commercial Legal Entity in Vietnamese Law
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201205.010How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- commercial legal entity, criminal liability, Vietnam, legal entity, crime, punishment
- Abstract
Through searching of the current situation of Vietnam’s current legal situation and learning from the experience of other countries in the world providing for criminal liability for legal entities, Vietnamese criminal law scientists have boldly building up the criminal liability regulations for commercial legal entities in Vietnam’s criminal code. On November 27, 2015, the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam voted to pass the amended Criminal Code that takes effect from January 1, 2018. The introduction of the Criminal Code in 2015 marked a breakthrough development in Vietnam’s criminal policy and legislative thinking. For the first time in the history of criminal legislation, the Criminal Code provides for the criminal liability of commercial legal entities in chapter XI with 33 specific offenses.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Bui Sy Nam PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/07 TI - Criminal Liability of Commercial Legal Entity in Vietnamese Law BT - Proceedings of the XIV European-Asian Law Congress "The Value of Law" (EAC-LAW 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 54 EP - 58 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201205.010 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201205.010 ID - Nam2020 ER -