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Common and civil law approaches to tort‐based corporate climate litigation: A comparative case law review

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 515-529, July 2026.
Abstract As corporate climate litigation intensifies globally, litigants consistently encounter the same procedural and substantive hurdles: duty of care, standing and causation. Success in navigating these hurdles has been sporadic, and most existing inquiry has sought to understand these trends according to geographical or case‐type lenses.
Calum MacLaren
wiley   +1 more source

The Constitutionalization of Social Rights in Italy, Germany, and Portugal: Legislative Discretion, Minimal Guarantees, and Distributive Integration

German Law Journal
In an international social rights debate disproportionately focused on English-speaking countries, redundant emphasis has been placed on justiciability.
Francesco Lucherini
doaj   +1 more source

The right to food: Many developments, more challenges

Canadian Food Studies, 2015
The right to food (RTF)1has enjoyed growing recognition in the last decade. It has achieved legitimacy and visibility in international governance debates, where it is increasingly perceived as a useful “policy guide” (DeSchutter, 2009).
Priscilla Claeys
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A geography of access to justice: mapping social welfare legal aid need and provision in England and Wales

Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 187-210, June 2026.
Abstract Our research combined statistical data, interviews, and geographic information system (GIS) tools to map social welfare legal aid ‘deserts’ in England and Wales. This novel mixed methodology enabled us to explore the spatiality of unmet legal aid need.
JO WILDING, CHRIS EMBERSON
wiley   +1 more source

Derechos sociales y amparo constitucional

Revista Vasca de Administración Pública, 2012
Although the Spanish Constitution recognizes a remarkable cast of social rights, its article 53 excludes these rights from the mechanisms built to guarantee the protection of constitutional rights.
María Díaz Crego
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O CONTROLE JURISDICIONAL DO IMPEACHMENT NO BRASIL E NOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DA AMÉRICA

Direito em Debate, 2019
Este ensaio busca comparar os mais relevantes precedentes do Brasil e dos Estados Unidos da América acerca da questão do controle jurisdicional do impeachment, para, então, concluir em que medida é possível falar em uma convergência ou divergência na ...
Luisa Angélica Mendes Mesquita, Alexandre Edde Diniz de Oliveira   +1 more
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Supremacy Rule of Law in the Service of a Depoliticised Democracy—Pondering the Nature of the EU's ‘Social Contract’

European Law Journal, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 144-161, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Seeing the EU roughly as a political system designed to remove the most essential political decisions from democratic control, while in a large part abiding by legal frameworks, we could speak about an opposition between technocratic legalism and democracy.
Dimitry V. Kochenov, Jacquelyn D. Veraldi   +1 more
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Cloistered justice: The opposing trends of barricade and respective secrecy

Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue S1, Page S93-S112, April 2026.
Abstract Two recent reports illustrate contrasting trends in open justice exceptions conceptualised as respective and barricade secrecy. Respective secrecy protects the parties involved and their constitutive social ties and, as evaluation report into the Family Court Transparency Pilot indicates, has been shrinking.
LYDIA MORGAN
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Judicial Review: Substance and Procedure

The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 2, Page 227-254, March 2026.
In this article we distinguish two questions about judicial review. First, substance: what acts or decisions are properly subject to the grounds of review? Second, procedure: what acts or decisions are properly reviewable through the judicial review procedure? Then we settle both.
Adam Perry, Angelo Ryu
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Évaluation de la performance dans les tribunaux administratifs : synthèse critique de la littérature et agenda de recherche

Canadian Public Administration, Volume 69, Issue 1, Page 110-126, March 2026.
Sommaire À première vue, l'évaluation de la performance s'accommode difficilement avec les principes de fonctionnement des institutions investies d'une fonction juridictionnelle. C'est pourquoi une littérature émergente, mais fragmentée, s'intéresse à son adoption dans les tribunaux administratifs.
Mah Aristide Dion
wiley   +1 more source