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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. Since 2017, five civil and administrative cases have been filed in Japan, seeking to stop the construction and operation of coal-fired power plants.
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. Eight additional power plants are currently planned or under construction. Civil law cases. This will be the first climate change case heard before the Supreme Court.
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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JUNE 26, 2023
Japan ) Two weeks later, a civil complaint involving the same facts received a first-instance judgment rejecting the request for an injunction to block the construction and operation of coal-fired power plants. Kobe Civil Case) In September 2018, a group of 40 citizens sued Kobe Steel Ltd., Kobe Steel Ltd., Urgenda Foundation v.
Conflict of Laws
APRIL 13, 2023
The aim of this post is to explore how would Indian substantive law of the contract impact limitation period and party autonomy, especially in the context of contracting out of limitation in a foreign-seated international arbitration. Indeed, this is the prevalent position in the civil law jurisdictions.
Conflict of Laws
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
We translated the press announcement as follows: Background and Significance of the Interpretation People’s courts face the important issue of how international treaties and international practices are applied domestically in foreign-related civil and commercial trials.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell. In Smith v Fonterra , decided by New Zealand’s Supreme Court this week, we have perhaps the biggest common law breakthrough. And it should put corporations on notice: failing to reduce GHG emissions is a legal risk. 7, 2024) [link].
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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