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

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Japan , their case challenging the legality of a governmental approval that allows for the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants. Eight additional power plants are currently planned or under construction. Civil law cases. This will be the first climate change case heard before the Supreme Court.

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

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Japan ) Two weeks later, a civil complaint involving the same facts received a first-instance judgment rejecting the request for an injunction to block the construction and operation of coal-fired power plants. Kobe Civil Case) In September 2018, a group of 40 citizens sued Kobe Steel Ltd., Kobe Steel Ltd., Urgenda Foundation v.

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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. This paper is about the unification of commercial contract law. to 52.9 % since 2004.

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Smith v Fonterra: A Common Law Climate Litigation Breakthrough

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A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell. In Smith v Fonterra , decided by New Zealand’s Supreme Court this week, we have perhaps the biggest common law breakthrough. As this open-ended definition suggests, public nuisance is a slippery tort.

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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. As a result, in terms of arbitration proceedings, TPF’s legality cannot be questioned [32].

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Victimization vs. Criminalization: The Trump Predicament 

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While these political vs. legal interpretations of reality capture the moment in the ongoing saga of Donald Trump, I do not believe that the label of victim is “baked in” nor that his narrative of victimhood will be the prevailing one.

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