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Fossil fuel feuds and the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change

open access: yesReview of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract The Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) breaks new ground by clearly identifying fossil fuel production, licensing and subsidisation among the activities to which international climate change obligations apply, going as far as suggesting that such activities may ...
Harro van Asselt, Tejas Rao
wiley   +1 more source

The Women of Al-Hol: Deservingness and the Politics of Vulnerability and Security

open access: yesNordic Journal of Migration Research
This article analyses the relationship between security- and vulnerability-based reasoning in the interpretation of extraterritorial human rights obligations, taking the repatriation of adult Finnish women from the al-Hol Camp as an example. It discusses
Mikaela Heikkilä, Magdalena Kmak
doaj   +1 more source

The Governance of the European Digital Identity Framework Through the Lens of Institutional Mimesis

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The European Commission's decision to expand its 2014 Regulation on electronic identification and trust services toward wallet‐based digital identities marked a significant shift in the governance of users' digital identities. The intersection between private digital services, public prerogatives, and individual self‐determination raises ...
Linda Weigl, Marta Reysner
wiley   +1 more source

Due Diligence Regulation and Sustainability Governance in Value Chains: Lessons From the South African Wine Sector

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A recent raft of due diligence regulation (DDR) addressing social and environmental conditions in global value chains (GVCs) has spread across the UK and Europe. An emerging literature on DDR highlights the politics of its formation. Yet, we know little about how existing sustainability governance along GVCs interacts with DDR or the wider ...
Matthew Alford   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Trafficking Victim Protection Act: The Best Hope for International Human Rights Litigation in the U.S. Courts? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The article focuses on uses Alien Tort Statute as a vehicle for litigating human rights abuses in both civil and criminal prosecutions in the U.S. Topics discussed include developments in International Criminal Law in addressing human rights violations ...
Beale, Sara Sun
core   +1 more source

New Labor Governance? The German Supply Chain Act and National Governance Mechanisms in Brazil

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Due diligence laws respond to labor governance challenges and to a lack of public governance addressing human rights violations in Global Value Chains. Despite ongoing contestation, the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act seeks to hold German‐based firms accountable for human rights risks in their supply chains.
Helena Gräf
wiley   +1 more source

Extraterritorial Application as a Problem of the Human Rights Concept

open access: yesМосковский журнал международного права
INTRODUCTION. If the legal recognition of human rights depends on belonging to “all members of the human family”, then the existence of the scope of application of human rights ratione loci is logically contradictory.
Ph. V. Luchkin
doaj   +1 more source

The Extraterritorial Reach of EU Environmental Law and Access to Justice by Third Country Actors

open access: yesEuropean Papers, 2017
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2017 2(2), 519-542 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. - II. The legal phenomenon of IEMEIs. - II.1.
Ioanna Hadjiyianni
doaj   +1 more source

The Territorial Exception to the Act of State Doctrine: Application to French Nationalization [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
This Note reaches the contrary conclusion that the French nationalization of American subsidiaries fits within the territorial exception to the act of state ...
Levine, Carolyn B.
core   +1 more source

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