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The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: PIL and Litigation Aspects

Conflict of Laws

Introduction After extensive negotiations, on 24 April 2024, the European Parliament approved the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD or CS3D) as part of the EU Green Deal. This disclosure must adhere to national procedural laws.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 2/2025: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

Kulov: The justification and conflict of laws problems of liability of domestic companies by piercing the corporate veil in the light of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (EU) No. Such a court decision can be recognised in Germany under procedural law.

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Conflict of Laws

The EU Sustainability Directive and Jurisdiction The Draft for a Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive currently contains no rules on jurisdiction. Sommerfeld ) The Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence The process towards an EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive is gaining momentum.

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Shell litigation in the Dutch courts – milestones for private international law and the fight against climate change

Conflict of Laws

First, Shell stated that the claimants abused procedural law, because the claims against Royal Dutch Shall were ‘obviously bound to fail and for that reason could not serve as a basis for jurisdiction as provided in art. 6a, enabling a choice of law for victims of business-related human rights violations. 7(1) DCCP’ (at [3.1]

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There and Back Again? – The unexpected journey of EU-UK Judicial Cooperation finally leads to The Hague

Conflict of Laws

by Achim Czubaiko, Research Fellow („Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter“) and PhD Candidate, supported by the German Scholarship Foundation, Institute for German and International Civil Procedural Law, University of Bonn. 10, 11 The Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations and Non-Contractual Obligations (Amendment etc.)

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Do The Right Thing: AG Garland Needs To Throw Out Weak ‘Fair Play’ Approach 

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In any case, three special prosecutors were appointed in the last three years to conduct four investigations: In 2020, Trump Attorney General Bill Barr appointed John Durham to “investigate the investigations” for possible abuses during the Russian probe that proved to be “much ado about nothing” except for empty conspiracy theories.

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