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Symposium for Trevor Hartley at LSE on 27 October 2023

Conflict of Laws

The first panel will focus on global and comparative private international law. The second panel will examine contemporary English conflict of laws, through the lens of Trevor’s famous ICLQ article on the systematic dismantling of the common law of conflict of laws.

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25th Volume of the Japanese Yearbook of Private International Law (2023)

Conflict of Laws

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.

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UN Draft Treaty on Transnational Business Enterprises and Human Rights in the Making: Raising the Global Bar in Corporate Litigation

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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.

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Giustizia consensuale No 1/2023: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

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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Commercial Disputes and anti-suit relief in Anglophone Africa

Conflict of Laws

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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Implied Jurisdiction Agreements in International Commercial Contracts

Conflict of Laws

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.

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Japanese Courts Admit the Operation of New Coal-Fired Power Plants in Kobe

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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.

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