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LEX & FORUM Vol. 3/2022

Conflict of Laws

During an online conference on this topic, which took place on the 29 th of September 2022, we had the great honor to host a discussion between well-known academics and leading domestic lawyers, who have dealt with this topic in depth. We had the horror to welcome the presentations of: Ms. Chronopoulou.

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Guest Post: Climate Litigation in Japan: Citizens’ Attempts for the Coal Phase-Out

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On May 6, 2022, the Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant filed an appeal to Japan’s Supreme Court in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. As of May 2022 , there are 163 operating coal-fired power plants in Japan. Civil law cases. By Yumeno Grace Nishikawa, LLM*. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Review of: PP Penasthika, Unravelling Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts: Indonesia as an Illustrative Case Study (The Hague: Eleven Publishers 2022)

Conflict of Laws

The monograph predominantly examines 19 Indonesian court decisions on choice of law in international commercial contracts during the period, 2000-2020. Finally, this second chapter discusses the limits on choice of law, such as public policy and mandatory rules. 2] Penasthika (ibid). [3] 4] Penasthika (n 1), 179.

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Who’s Afraid of Punitive Damages? – Conference in Augsburg, Germany

Conflict of Laws

It evidently has not stopped claimants from seeking enforcement of punitive damage awards in other civil law legal systems. Rademacher then analysed whether punitive elements could be found in German tort law. She pointed out that although parliament abolished punitive damages in certain areas of law (e.g.

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Victimization vs. Criminalization: The Trump Predicament 

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At the same time, Trump has been held liable on many occasions for fraud or for violating civil laws and torts. With respect to Trump he remains a primary deviant when it comes to ordinary customs as he has not been successfully stigmatized or shamed by others and certainly not by himself.

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RabelsZ: New issue alert

Conflict of Laws

Issue 1/2022 of RabelsZ is out. It contains the following articles (including three open-access articles focusing on “Decolonial Comparative Law”): Johannes Ungerer: Nudging in Private International Law. The Design of Connecting Factors in Light of Behavioural Economics, Volume 86 (2022) / Issue 1, pp.

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Third-party arbitration funding – Comparative analysis and Indian Perspective

LexForti

This was further supported when the Criminal Law Act, of 1967 did away with these crimes and torts of “maintenance” and “champerty”. 7] Gourab Banerji, Third Party Funding In International Arbitration: An Indian Perspective , International Arbitration and the Rule of Law 407–423 (2021). [8] 12] Union of India v. 2068 of 2017. [21]

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