Court Court Rules Drafting Procedural Law 
Conflict of Laws
JULY 2, 2025
Meng Yu, lecturer at China University of Political Science and Law, and co-founder of China Justice Observer. ABSTRACT In around 2019, a Chinese court in Hebei Province refused to enforce a US default monetary judgment from a California court on the grounds that a valid arbitration agreement was in place ( Sunvalley Solar Inc.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 24, 2025
Share At oral arguments earlier this week the Supreme Court was skeptical of the Food and Drug Administrations effort to block a North Carolina-based company from challenging the denial of its application to market e-cigarettes in the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana.
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Conflict of Laws
MARCH 16, 2025
Introduction An asymmetric choice of court agreement is commonly used in international commercial transactions, especially in financial agreements, which usually allows one party (option holder) an optional choice about the forum in which proceedings may be brought but the other (non-option holder) an exclusive choice to sue in a designated court.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
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On November 30, 2023, the Higher Administrative Court Berlin-Brandenburg ruled in DUH and BUND v. Unlike in the 2021 landmark ruling in Neubauer et al. Germany of the Federal Constitutional Court, the focus of the decision is not on fundamental rights, but on administrative questions of climate governance and enforcement.
Conflict of Laws
MAY 26, 2021
As was briefly announced earlier on this blog , on 29 January 2021, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague gave a ruling in a long-standing litigation launched by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch Milieudefensie. Oil spill in Nigeria and litigation in The Hague courts. Introduction.
Conflict of Laws
AUGUST 3, 2023
The EU Sustainability Directive and Jurisdiction The Draft for a Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive currently contains no rules on jurisdiction. Instead, we address a gap in the Draft Directive, namely the lack of any provisions on jurisdiction.
Conflict of Laws
JUNE 29, 2023
This also applies to the extended possibility of choice of court agreements, for which it is still unclear whether exclusive prorogation is possible beyond the cases named in Article 10 section 4 of the Brussels II ter Regulation. Only if the rules are interpreted with a sense of proportion the desired improvements can be achieved.
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