Rethinking Corporate Criminal Liability for Environmental Crimes Through Feminist Legal Theory

Abstract

In the face of the rampant environmental challenges the recalibration the corporate liability for the environmental harms is the today’s academic debate. The design of the environmental law and the markers for the identification of corporate liability are widely architected by the patriarchal, colonial, neo liberal and profit driven elements. As the effects of climate degradation are disproportionate for the different segments of society. Given their vulnerability of the women, aboriginal communities and marginalized factions there is debate in the legal environmentalism regarding the redefinition of the corporate liability and the environmental law from being stuck only in the deterrence. Feminist approach and the environmentalism being the two contemporary debates get their inception in the same time of the previous century. Feminist approach is poised to introduce the conception of determination of the cross-sectional harm, equitable remedial action and more sensitization to the long-ignored gender section so as to further the agenda of sustainable development along with the addressing of the gender-based concerns.