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The strategic role of courts in advancing climate policy

Carlotta Garofalo
Junges Forum ÖJKRecht vor Gericht
Carlotta GarofaloClimate changeEquityGlobal Southhuman rightsJunges Forum ÖJKSchwerpunkt Recht und KlimawandelStrategic litigation
Schwerpunkt „Recht und Klimawandel“ des Jungen Forums der Österreichischen Juristenkommission und des ClimLaw: Graz by CARLOTTA GAROFALO Climate lawsuits have recently become a global phenomenon. As such, they have been increasingly successful in drawing media attention. However, the narrative about their novel and combative character often eludes an inconvenient truth: they…
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The Ecuadorian Chevron Judgement: Blueprint for a neoconstitutional environmental law?

Andreas Gutmann
Junges Forum ÖJKRecht vor Gericht
Andreas GutmannChevronconstitutional lawEcuadorEnvironmental liability lawExtractivismhuman rightsIn dubio pro naturaJunges Forum ÖJKLatin American NeoconstitutionalismSchwerpunkt Recht und Klimawandel
Schwerpunkt „Recht und Klimawandel“ des Jungen Forums der Österreichischen Juristenkommission und des ClimLaw: Graz by ANDREAS GUTMANN Climate is heated by fossil fuels whose extraction often causes severe damages both to nature and humans. If the law is to save the climate, it must therefore encompass both burning and extraction of…
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A civil-legal understanding of attacks on journalism

Sara K. Torsner
Perspektiven des öffentlichen RechtsRecht kulturell
attacks on journalismcivil diminishmentcivil role of lawhuman rightsJournalismusSara K. TorsnerSchutz von Journalistinnen und Journalisten
Schwerpunkt zum Schutz journalistischer Arbeit im europäischen Rechtsraum By SARA K. TORSNER Amongst the many aspects of jurisprudence, legal practice and the extant range of institutional forms the law occupies, there is the often overlooked sociological fact that the law is (amongst these many other things) a civil institution concerned…
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Greece, Italy – and the Netherlands?

Recht politischRecht transnationalRecht vor Gericht
asylumDersim YabasunDublin regulationEuropean lawhuman rightsmigration lawNetherlands
Suspension of Dublin-transfer because of the risk to be subjected to inhumane treatment by DERSIM YABASUN On 9 May 2014, the Verwaltungsgericht in Darmstadt declared that the transfer of a Somali national to the Netherlands in the context of the Dublin Regulation should be suspended because the applicant would run the…
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A whistle blowin’ in the wind? Why indifference towards mass surveillance will make a difference

Recht dogmatischRecht transnational
data protectionDatenschutzEvin Dalkilichuman rightsICCPRInternetIPbpRmass surveillanceMenschenrechteNSA
Von EVIN DALKILIC “One of the most disturbing aspects of the public response to Edward Snowden’s revelations about the scale of governmental surveillance is how little public disquiet there appears to be about it.“ But why should we care when most likely the majority of us will never even notice…
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