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The Chinese villages win a lawsuit in China to repatriate a Mummified Buddha Statue hold by a Dutch Collector —What Role has Private International Law Played?

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This note focuses on the major legal issues that the Chinese judgment dealt with and attempts to analyse the role of private international law that has played. 4] It simply determined not to hear the case, based on its finding that the two village committees did not have standing to sue in the Dutch court. [5]. Summary of Facts.

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

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Germany of the Federal Constitutional Court, the focus of the decision is not on fundamental rights, but on administrative questions of climate governance and enforcement. To compel the federal government to fulfill its legal obligation under the CCA, two environmental associations filed a lawsuit in the Higher Administrative Court.