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Review of E Aristova, Tort Litigation Against Transnational Corporations: The Challenge of Jurisdiction in English Courts, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, 352 pp, hb £125

Conflict of Laws

The book explores the approach of English courts to jurisdictional issues in foreign direct liability (FDL) claims brought against English-based parent companies and their foreign subsidiaries as co-defendants. Chapter 4 examines the capacity and challenges faced by English courts in adjudicating foreign direct liability (FDL) claims.

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Court endorses private Section 1983 enforcement of spending clause enactments

SCOTUSBlog

Jackson explained that two well-established principles prompted the court to reject HHC’s invitation to reimagine the statute and precedent. The court then applied its long-standing two-step analysis to conclude that FNHRA is enforceable through Section 1983. First, FNHRA “unambiguously” confers individual federal rights.

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Supreme Court limits homeowners’ ability to sue their lenders in tort

At the Lectern

Balancing “the interests of homeowners in default against those seeking affordable home loans,” the Supreme Court in Sheen v. ” The court settles a conflict in Court of Appeal case law and notes a similar divide in federal district court rulings.

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Israel dispatch: Knesset vote to curtail ‘reasonableness doctrine’ would limit judiciary’s power to constrain arbitrary executive decisions

JURIST

The reasonableness doctrine is found in Israeli administrative law and allows the court to exercise its power of judicial review on the executive branch of the government. It was grandfathered into Israeli jurisprudence in 1948, along with much of the British Mandatory law that had been in place up until then.

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New issue alert: RabelsZ 2/2021

Conflict of Laws

The duties of care of a sponsor under contract and/or tort law are also determined by the degree of control exercised by a sponsor and the economic dependence of the athlete on the sponsor. Kanning: Unification of Commercial Contract Law: The Role of the Dominant Economy, Volume 85 (2021) / Issue 2, pp.

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Now or Then? The Temporal Aspects of Choice-of-Law Clauses

Conflict of Laws

courts interpret choice-of-law clauses. That paper contains a detailed discussion of the most common interpretive issues—whether the clause selects the tort laws of the chosen jurisdiction in addition to its contract laws, for example—that arise in litigation. There was, however, one important omission.

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The Critical Role of Lawyers and Bar Associations in Achieving Net Zero

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

And that has implications for tort law, contract law, and property law, because it is less clear in many ways how basic legal principles such as negligence, foreseeability, force majeure, and reasonableness will apply to particular problems. “You

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