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Addressing White Collar Crime on a Domestic Level Any Lessons Learned for International Criminal Law? Roland Hefendehl* Abstract Combating white-collar crime appears on the agenda of any legislator. Since major commercial enterprises now operate transnationally, the efforts to prosecute and  pun ish busi ness cri mes are inc reasi ngly shif ted onto an int ern ational or ç as in Eur ope ç supranational level . An ‘international business criminal lawproper , how- ever, does not exist as yet. The author examines whether ç in light of domestic experiences in combating white-collar crime ç international criminal law should be extended to specifically cover business behaviour. Or would it be better to refrain  from this app roach in case it is perc eive d as just anot her example of sym boli c  poli tics. 1. Intr oduction The question I intend to address in this brief presentation is whether national implementation measures to combat white-collar crime could and should be used as an example for a future concept of international business criminal law. More specifically: could and should German business criminal law serve as a model for such an international criminal law and/or other domestic crim- inal law systems, and thus, potentially become an ‘export hit’ similar to the German crimin al law doctrines during the ninet eenth and twentieth centuries? 1 * Professor at the I nstitu te for Criminal Law and Business Criminal Law , Univ ersity of Freib urg (Germany). I would like to thank Florian Jessberger and Gerhard Werle, Humboldt University of Berlin , for inviti ng me to the intern at ional conference , ‘Tr ansnat ional Business and International Criminal Law’, where I presented my thoughts; furthermore, to my team of the Institute for their support in translating this article. [[email protected]] 1 See e.g . vo n Liszt and Binding and their important r elev ance for forei gn coun tries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Journal of Intern ationa l Crimi nal Justice  8 ( 2010) 769 ^782 do i:10 1093 /j ic j / mqq0 4 1   a  t  M P I   C r i  m i  n  a L  a  w  o  J   a  u  a r  y 1  6  , 2  0 1  3 h  t   t   p  :  /   /   j  i   c  j   .  o x f   o r  d  j   o  u r n  a l   s  .  o r  g  /  D  o  w n l   o  a  d  e  d f  r  o m

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