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AbstractThis article presents an account of international law and its possible future that revolves around three key themes: responsibility, fraternity, and sustainability. These three themes were promoted by Charles Doherty Gonthier, visionary justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1989 to 2003, for whom the inaugural lecture where this article was presented is named.

In the paper, after outlining the criminological background, namely the corporate criminality in the field of core international crimes and some possible arguments in favour of criminal accountability of corporations on an international level, the case law of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and the so-called subsequent Nuremberg trials is introduced. Finally, the third part is devoted to examine the questions of the codification process of the Statute of the International Criminal Court in relation to the organizational liability, putting the emphasis on answering the question: was there and is there an international court or tribunal that can exercise criminal jurisdiction over corporations?

"International Law and the Responsibility to Protect" published on by Oxford University Press.