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25th Volume of the Japanese Yearbook of Private International Law (2023)

Conflict of Laws

The decision is the first to recognize a corporate duty to mitigate climate change under tort law. attorneys with limited budgets. Despite potentially disappointing outcomes, the continued commitment of attorneys and support for petitioners is critical.

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New issue alert: RabelsZ 2/2021

Conflict of Laws

. – This article investigates the law and economics of extreme sports sponsoring in a comparative perspective. It is based on 40 structured interviews with sponsored athletes from various common law and civil law jurisdictions. The article demonstrates that the current contracting practice is unbalanced and inefficient.

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Japanese Courts Admit the Operation of New Coal-Fired Power Plants in Kobe

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Coal-Fired power plants targeted at the case, taken by Attorney Shunsuke Sugit In March 2023, two important decisions regarding the operation of newly built coal-fired power plants were handed down by courts in Japan. Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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The Latest Development on Anti-suit Injunction Wielded by Chinese Courts to Restrain Foreign Parallel Proceedings

Conflict of Laws

(This post is provided by Zeyu Huang, who is an associate attorney of Hui Zhong Law Firm based in Shenzhen. Mr. Huang obtained his LLB degree from the Remin University of China Law School. He is also a PhD candidate & LLM at the Faculty of Law in University of Macau.

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Third-party arbitration funding – Comparative analysis and Indian Perspective

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Considering India’s clear restriction on attorneys entering into conditional fee arrangements [24] , the researcher urge that India’s rules only enable participants to pursue funds straight without the participation of their legal counsel. Chunder Mookerjee[31] that “TPF agreements are not inherently contrary to public policy”.

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Victimization vs. Criminalization: The Trump Predicament 

The Crime Report

For example, in realpolitik we saw evidence of Trump’s victimhood of “rigged” elections starting to ebb in the defeat last week of Jim Jordan of Ohio for the House Speakership and in the guilty pleas of two of Trump’s attorneys and co-defendants Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro in the Georgia RICO case.

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