Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 3, 2023

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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Conflict of Laws

MAY 26, 2021

As was briefly announced earlier on this blog , on 29 January 2021, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague gave a ruling in a long-standing litigation launched by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch Milieudefensie. All claims addressed in the Court of Appeal ruling of 29 January 2021 are assessed according to Nigerian law.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 27, 2021

A welcome but not unique initiative (Comparison with the UN draft Treaty). An edited and updated version will be published in 2021 in Hart´s “Studies in Private International Law”), in order to correct some of the shortcomings of the latter. And even supposing that such interpretation was correct, as draft Art.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

June 15, 2021). June 16, 2021). On June 14, 2021, the U.S. On June 23, 2021, Chevron Corporation filed notice in the district court of its voluntary dismissal of third-party complaints against the energy company Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil ASA). June 14, 2021). June 28, 2021). Louisiana v. Biden , No.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

13, 2021); County of Maui v. On March 26, 2021, the court denied Exxon’s emergency motion for a temporary stay of the remand order. 22, 2021), In re Exxon Mobil Corp. , City of New York v. BP p.l.c. , 18-2188 (2d Cir. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Ninth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Honolulu and Maui Cases.

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