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

Conflict of Laws

Though decided almost four months ago, the case merits discussion of several private international law aspects that will perhaps become one of the milestones in the broader context of liability of parent companies for the actions of their foreign-based subsidiaries. Application of (substantive) Nigerian law. Substantive law.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 4/2022: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

Wolfram: Achmea – neglecting of international public law – some afterthoughts. It intends instead to throw some light on the rules of public international law on the termination of international treaties, which have not fully been taken into account by those who attempted to implement the Achmea judgment. Heiderhoff/E.

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

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The program is intended to ensure compliance with the annual emission targets for the building and transportation sectors for the years 2024 to 2030. According to the draft law for the new CCA, it is no longer (only) the ministry responsible for exceeding emissions targets that is responsible for correcting course, but the entire government.