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. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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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. 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. Administrative complaints.

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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.

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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).

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Laws Litigation Litigating Court 76