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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
in 2021, which is 2% higher than the percentage before the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. The Nagoya District Court will consider whether private actors can be held liable for their GHG emissions under Japanese tort law. Background Japan has heavily relied on the use of fossil fuels for its power generation.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JUNE 1, 2022
Further, the Act on Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures (national legislation providing the general framework concerning the adoption and implementation of measures to combat global warming) was revised in May 2021. Civil law cases. The revised Act explicitly included the pledge for net zero by 2050. Kobe Steel Ltd.,
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Conflict of Laws
MAY 18, 2021
It features the following articles: Horst Eidenmüller: Recht und Ökonomik des Extremsport-Sponsorings in vergleichender Perspektive, Volume 85 (2021) / Issue 2, pp. 273-325 (53), DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2021-0002. The Law and Economics of Extreme Sports Sponsoring in Comparative Perspective.
Conflict of Laws
AUGUST 29, 2024
Spanning 226 pages across six chapters, the book aims to be the leading English-language text on private international law in Indonesia. Indonesia, a civil law country, has legal principles influenced by Dutch traditional private international law, owing to its colonial history.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
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.
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 23, 2024
It evidently has not stopped claimants from seeking enforcement of punitive damage awards in other civil law legal systems. Rademacher then analysed whether punitive elements could be found in German tort law. She pointed out that although parliament abolished punitive damages in certain areas of law (e.g.
Conflict of Laws
MAY 18, 2023
The Nigerian landowners’ claim against Shell was thus barred by the limitation periods under applicable Nigerian law ( Jalla and another v Shell International Trading and Shipping Company and another [2023] UKSC 16 , on appeal from [2021] EWCA Civ 63 ). The case at hand is an appeal on a part of an earlier rulings.
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