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The liability of legal person was introduced in Costa Rica by Law No. 9699 of 2019, transforming the idea of subjective liability that until then had survived in Costa Rican legislation and criminal science, since the great reform of the seventies of the twentieth century.  The direct repeal of the principle societas delinquere non potest will undoubtedly bring about a series of very important debates from the perspective of criminal policy and constitutional jurisprudence.  The purpose of this article is, therefore, to review the most important dogmatic problems that this new regulation offers, to analyze its consequences from the perspective of the judicialization of recent corruption cases, which will be the first in which this type of liability will be directly applicable, and a prognosis of the impact that can be expected from the design of the regulatory compliance model envisioned by the Costa Rican legislator.