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EU Law

11 Jul

[Jacob Bogart (X: @BogartJacob) is Counsel at Perseus Strategies, a 2025 Salzburg Global International Law Fellow and graduate of Columbia Law School] This post is the first part in a three-part series on the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). Part I dissects the Omnibus and other reform proposals. Part II maps the reactions to and legal implications of these...

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06 Jun

[Emma Neuber is a member of the Samos-based NGO I Have Rights and an LLM candidate at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway] I was running for freedom and came to a prison.An asylum seeker from the Closed Controlled Access Centre on Samos, Greece Detention has become a prevalent response to irregular migration, reflecting the ever-increasing securitisation of migration...

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25 Jul

[Andreas Piperides is a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in Public International Law at the University of Glasgow] Introduction The recent unanimous judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or the Court) on the merits of Ukraine v. Russia (re Crimea) has been described as a ‘a clear and undeniable victory for Ukraine’. In the judgment the Court finds...

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22 May

[Ignacio Portela Giráldez is a Ph.D. student researching novel climate litigation pathways under the UN Convention on the Law of The Sea. He is a teacher of International and Political Studies at the University of New South Wales (Canberra) and lecturer in International Environmental Protection at the Open University of Catalonia.] The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has finally ruled...

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15 Feb

[Johanna Trittenbach is a PhD Candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University.  Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University and Otto Spijkers is a Lecturer of International Law at Amsterdam and Leiden University College (AUC and LUC).] Introduction On 12 February 2024, the Court of Appeal in The Hague ordered the Netherlands...

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13 Jun

[Dr Claire Lougarre is a Lecturer in Law at Ulster University, School of Law. Her primary research expertise lies at the intersection of human rights law and health, with a particular interest in the right to health, as well as in sexual and reproductive health & rights.] Introduction According to Article 3(5) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), the European Union...

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15 May

[Panagiota Kotzamani is a post-doctoral researcher on corporate obligations and liability for international crimes and human rights violations at the Centre for Law, Sustainability and Justice (CLS&J), at the Department of Law, University of Southern Denmark (SDU).] The adoption of a Directive on the expected human rights due diligence (HRDD) standards for EU and EU-active corporations has been in the agenda...

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10 Apr

[Kate Mackintosh is the Executive Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights at the UCLA School of Law, and was deputy co-chair of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide.] In an exciting development for proponents of a new international crime of ecocide, the European Parliament on Tuesday agreed a text for the new Environmental Crimes Directive (“Draft...

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03 Mar

[Jaap Hoeksma focuses on the nature and functioning of the EU. He has recently published The Democratisation of the European Union.] Seventy years after the start of the experiment with pooling sovereignty, the European Union turns out to embody the most significant innovation of the modern state system so far. The hallmark of the EU in its present form is that it...

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23 Feb

A few days ago, the European Law Institute published its final report on ecocide. The report not only provides a definition of ecocide, it also contains Model Rules for an EU Directive and a Council Decision that ELI hopes will both "contribute to the inter-institutional negotiations in the EU on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and...

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27 Jun

[Hans Gutbrod (Twitter: @HansGutbrod) is Associate Professor at Ilia State University in Tbilisi and Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Seton Hall University. He regularly writes on ethics in international affairs. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics.] In the last two years, headlines from Kabul across Karabakh to Kiyv have brought news...

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