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

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Civil law cases. Civil lawsuits were filed in Sendai in 2017 and Kobe in 2018 by citizens against corporations that planned to build new coal-fired power plants. a group of citizens submitted a civil law complaint requesting an injunction to stop the construction and subsequent operation of two coal-fired power plants.

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‘Giustizia consensuale’: A New Law Journal on Consensual Justice in Its Many Nuances and Forms

Conflict of Laws

Notes on Law, Psychology, and Practice ; in Italian). In addition, alternative dispute resolution mechanisms are in tune with the current changes in administrative law; there is a deep link between droit souple and justice douce , between soft law and ADR, between non-traditional substantive law and alternative administrative judicial review.

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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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