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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)

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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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Is Chinese Judicial Mediation Settlement ‘Judgment’ in Private International Law?

Conflict of Laws

On 7 June 2022, the Supreme Court of New South Wales recognized and enforced two Chinese judicial mediation settlement issued by the People’s Court of Qingdao, Shandong Province China in Bank of China Limited v Chen. This document is called ‘judicial mediation settlement’ in this note. What is a judicial mediation settlement.

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Litigating Enforcement: Germany’s Contested Climate Governance and the New Wave of Climate Litigation

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In March 2022, the German Environment Agency determined that Germany’s transportation and building sectors had exceeded their maximum allowable annual emissions (the building sector exceeded its sectoral target by 2.5 (Examples abound: see here , here , and here ). million tons of CO2 equivalent).