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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

Very recently, Indonesian private international law has attracted significant scholarship in the English language. [1] 1] Dr Penasthika’s monograph (‘the monograph’) [2] is one such work that deserves attention for its compelling and comprehensive account of choice of law in international commercial contracts in Indonesia.

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LEX & FORUM Vol. 3/2022

Conflict of Laws

The European Regulations of Private and Procedural International Law are part of an enclosed legislative system. Like any regional unification, EU law involves discriminatory treatment against those who fall outside its scope. This editorial has been prepared by Prof. Paris Arvanitakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

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

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

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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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. In his paper on “Compensation, Punishment, and the Idea of Private Law”, Lukas Rademacher (University of Kiel) explained the idea of punitive damages and its compatibility with German private law.

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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. Second, art.

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Third-party arbitration funding – Comparative analysis and Indian Perspective

LexForti

Third-party funding is rather a new concept and was adapted by many legislations only recently due to the illegality of the doctrines of maintenance and champerty in common-law jurisdictions in the past. The concept of TPF, though accepted explicitly by the law of the land, has two sides to it similar to the way of a coin.

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Victimization vs. Criminalization: The Trump Predicament 

The Crime Report

They prefer to falsely vilify the Democratic opposition and President Biden’s “crime family” while blaming an imaginary “deep state” and very real federal and state judicial departments for “weaponizing” the discriminatory wheels of law enforcement against the former president.

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