2022 Civil Law Litigating 
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
In Japan, climate litigation ( / Kiko soshou ) has been used to challenge the legality of the construction and operation of the coal-fired power plants and promote coal phase-out. This blog post provides an overview of those cases and the broader landscape of climate litigation in Japan. Sendai Power Station ). Kobe Steel Ltd.,
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JUNE 1, 2022
The Supreme Court of Japan may soon weigh in on a growing field of climate litigation in Japan against coal-fired power plants. On May 6, 2022, the Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant filed an appeal to Japan’s Supreme Court in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. Civil law cases.
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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Climate litigation in Germany has achieved another major victory. Against this backdrop, the decision of the Higher Administrative Court must also be understood as part of a new wave of climate litigation. On November 30, 2023, the Higher Administrative Court Berlin-Brandenburg ruled in DUH and BUND v. million tons of CO2 equivalent).
Conflict of Laws
JUNE 30, 2022
China has published a landmark judicial policy on the enforcement of foreign judgments in 2022, embarking on a new era for judgment collection in China. It is noteworthy that in March 2022, Shanghai Maritime Court ruled to recognize and enforce an English judgment in Spar Shipping v Grand China Logistics (2018) Hu 72 Xie Wai Ren No.1,
Conflict of Laws
JULY 25, 2022
In their most recent article on A Hague Convention on Parallel Proceedings , 63 HARVARD INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL ONLINE 1 (2022), Ron Brand and Paul Herrup argued that the Hague Conference on Private International Law should not undertake a project to require or prohibit exercise of original jurisdiction in national courts.
Conflict of Laws
AUGUST 23, 2023
The monograph predominantly examines 19 Indonesian court decisions on choice of law in international commercial contracts during the period, 2000-2020. Finally, this second chapter discusses the limits on choice of law, such as public policy and mandatory rules. 2] Penasthika (ibid). [3] 4] Penasthika (n 1), 179.
Patently O
APRIL 13, 2023
As noted in the cited articles, European courts, following civil law principles, have generally been averse to anti-suit injunctions in global FRAND cases, resulting in royalties for European patents largely being established elsewhere. Standard Essential Royalty Act (SERA) (June 2022) Proposed EU SEP Regulation (Mar.
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