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5 Top legal podcasts in the UK you should be listening to

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People of all ages listen to podcasts on topics they feel interested in, which includes legal topics. Whether you’re a law student, a paralegal, or a solicitor with years of experience, listening to a legal podcast that suits your interests can be extremely beneficial, and fun. 1) UK Law Weekly. legal stories.

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Implied Jurisdiction Agreements in International Commercial Contracts

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These cross-border transactions present complex legal questions, such as the place where potential disputes will be adjudicated. This type of ‘unwritten’ jurisdiction agreement remains largely unexplored in the legal scholarship.

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Germany top court rules Berlin rent cap is unconstitutional

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The Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, Germany, ruled Thursday that Berlin’s Rent Cap Act is unconstitutional as it has undermined Germany’s Basic Law. The rent cap was enacted in February 2020 as an attempt by the local government to stifle rent hikes and gentrification. It froze rental rates for 1.5

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Out now: The Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law, Volume 12 (2024), Issue 1

Conflict of Laws

Arguably, it is time to consider how private international law (or conflict of laws) should develop in Asia and what kind of opportunity it can engender, considering that private international law has the potential to promote economic and legal cooperation without unifying substantive law.

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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. 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.

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Review of: PP Penasthika, Unravelling Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts: Indonesia as an Illustrative Case Study (The Hague: Eleven Publishers 2022)

Conflict of Laws

The monograph predominantly examines 19 Indonesian court decisions on choice of law in international commercial contracts during the period, 2000-2020. Conversely, Chapter One also acknowledges the book’s limitations, namely, that it only covers the express choice of law in international commercial contracts.

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RabelsZ: New issue alert

Conflict of Laws

Jochen Hoffmann and Lisa-Marie Pischel , Die Kollision von CISG und nationalem Verbraucherschutzrecht (Conflicts Between the CISG and National Consumer Law), pp. 556–585, [link] Damages for breach of an exclusive choice-of-court agreement have fascinated legal scholars for quite some time.