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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JUNE 1, 2022
The Supreme Court of Japan may soon weigh in on a growing field of climate litigation in Japan against coal-fired power plants. Japan , their case challenging the legality of a governmental approval that allows for the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants. Civil law cases. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
APRIL 8, 2022
This post examines the reform and highlights the important changes it introduces to the Italian legal system. The post also illustrates the positive impact the reform is likely to have on climate litigation initiatives in Italy. Rights-based climate litigation has been increasing substantially in recent years.
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Conflict of Laws
OCTOBER 9, 2021
Formulated by the United Nations in 2015, they form the core of the 2030 Agenda and aim to enable people worldwide to live in dignity while respecting the earth’s ecological limit. Workers’ rights should be placed at the center, and laws as well as legal practices should also be evaluated from this point of view.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MAY 8, 2024
And that has implications for tort law, contract law, and property law, because it is less clear in many ways how basic legal principles such as negligence, foreseeability, force majeure, and reasonableness will apply to particular problems. See this article by Jim Rossi and J.B. LSEW adopted a similar resolution in 2021.
Conflict of Laws
JANUARY 30, 2024
The paper also examines the effects of foreign adoption decrees, suggesting that recognition should cover the legal parent-child relationship and the termination of the pre-existing relationship, but not parental responsibility. The decision is the first to recognize a corporate duty to mitigate climate change under tort law.
Conflict of Laws
MAY 26, 2021
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.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
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. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. North Dakota v.
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