2023 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.,
Conflict of Laws
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
The Easy Opt-Out Model Settles the Perennial Dispute between Voluntary and Mandatory Mediation The contribution reflects on the desirability of soft regulation of mediation to strike a balance between the principle of voluntariness and providing a viable alternative to litigation, thus boosting the efficiency of the civil justice system.
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Conflict of Laws
JANUARY 30, 2024
JYPIL is a peer-reviewed journal that presents trends in academic research in the field of private international law in Japan, with high-quality discussion of the most important issues in the field from both Japanese and comparative law perspectives. Recently, the 25th Volume (2023) of JYPIL has been published.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MAY 30, 2024
Ecological restoration and environmental remediation are some responses to climate change, and thereby this Treaty is likely to impact future climate litigation. The Draft Treaty complements soft law in the same area, namely the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. la France case, and the Swiss KlimaSeniorinnen case.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JUNE 26, 2023
Coal-Fired power plants targeted at the case, taken by Attorney Shunsuke Sugit In March 2023, two important decisions regarding the operation of newly built coal-fired power plants were handed down by courts in Japan. Background information about the general climate context and litigation in Japan is available in a previous blog post.
Conflict of Laws
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
Explicit jurisdiction clauses offer cross-border litigants the benefit of predictability by allowing them to anticipate where disputes arising from their commercial transactions will be resolved. In our latest article , published in the 2023 edition of the Journal of Private International Law , vol.
Conflict of Laws
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Courts in Anglophone Africa, and especially those in Nigeria and the Republic of South Africa, have recently given guidance to litigants on the requirements which have to be satisfied in order to obtain anti-suit relief. The text is available to order from Juta and Amazon.
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