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Tort Litigation against Transnational Companies in England

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This post is an abridged adaptation of my recent article, Private International Law and Substantive Liability Issues in Tort Litigation against Multinational Companies in the English Courts: Recent UK Supreme Court Decisions and Post-Brexit Implications in the Journal of Private International Law. Muir-Watt (ibid) 386).

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Guest Commentary: New Italian Constitutional Reform: What it Means for Environmental Protection, Future Generations & Climate Litigation

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The post also illustrates the positive impact the reform is likely to have on climate litigation initiatives in Italy. Adopting a comparative perspective, we draw on constitutional frameworks and recent climate litigation cases in other European jurisdictions. What does the reform bring about? In Neubauer, et al.

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April 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. 13, 2021); County of Maui v. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Koati. and non-U.S. City of New York v. BP p.l.c. ,

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Shell litigation in the Dutch courts – milestones for private international law and the fight against climate change

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As was briefly announced earlier on this blog , on 29 January 2021, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague gave a ruling in a long-standing litigation launched by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch Milieudefensie. Climate change and related human rights litigation is undoubtedly of increasing importance in private international law.

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. June 15, 2021). June 16, 2021). On June 14, 2021, the U.S. June 14, 2021). and non-U.S. Louisiana v.

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Álvarez-Armas on potential human-rights-related amendments to the Rome II Regulation (II): The proposed Art. 6a; Art. 7 is dead, long live Article 7?

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7 Rome II (environmental torts) is one of the main de lege ferenda suggestions I considered in my PhD dissertation ( Private International Environmental Litigation before EU Courts: Choice of Law as a Tool of Environmental Global Governance , Université Catholique de Louvain & Universidad de Granada, 2017. 6a crystallize, and Art.

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BNP Paribas sued in France for financing fossil fuel companies

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If damage caused by non-compliance with la Loi de Vigilance, any person with legitimate interest can seek reparation under tort law. In 2021, the Hague District Court ordered Shell to reduce both its own carbon emissions and end-use emissions by 45% by 2030 in relation to the 2019 figures. of the decision).

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