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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. Subsequently, two administrative cases were filed, one in Kobe in 2018 ( Citizens Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. Sendai Power Station ).
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JUNE 1, 2022
Japan , their case challenging the legality of a governmental approval that allows for the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants. Civil law cases. Civil lawsuits were filed in Sendai in 2017 and Kobe in 2018 by citizens against corporations that planned to build new coal-fired power plants.
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Conflict of Laws
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
The position will be integrated in the SICL’s team of international lawyers and researchers and be part of a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation on applicable law, jurisdiction, recognition and international cooperation in the field of filiation with foreign elements.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MAY 30, 2024
Upon the initiative of the United Nations Human Rights Council (the UNHRC), a new legally binding agreement regulating transnational business enterprises’ human rights violations is likely on its way. The future legal value of the Draft Treaty will be that of enforceable regulation, provided of course that it is adopted in its current form.
Conflict of Laws
JULY 11, 2021
Notes on Law, Psychology, and Practice ; in Italian). It first analyses the conceptual, legal and systematic differences between conciliation and arbitration, with references to some areas of partial overlap (such as, for example, the one now opened by the Singapore Convention of 2019).
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 23, 2023
While these political vs. legal interpretations of reality capture the moment in the ongoing saga of Donald Trump, I do not believe that the label of victim is “baked in” nor that his narrative of victimhood will be the prevailing one.
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