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environmental law Tag

03 Mar

[Dr. Juan-Pablo Peréz-León-Acevedo is a DPhil in Law candidate and a tutor at the University of Oxford. He also teaches at the Universities of Reading, Southampton, Oslo, and Abo Akademi (Finland)] While the ICJ’s Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change Advisory Opinion (ICJ-AO) has been extensively analysed, this post examines an issue that remains largely unexplored, namely, how the ICJ-AO and a specific domestic...

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02 Mar

[Aikaterini [Katerina] Tsampi is Assistant Professor of International Law at the University of Groningen and Rapporteur of the International Law Association (ILA) Study Group on “International Law, Human Rights and Islands”] On 28 January 2026 the District Court of The Hague (Court) issued its first-instance judgment in Greenpeace Netherlands v. The State of the Netherlands (the original Dutch text). The claimant...

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13 Feb

[Mohit Khubchandani is an International Disputes Resolution Attorney and PhD candidate at Leiden Law School, writing his PhD on "Forum and harm specific metrics of compensation for environmental damages (MCES) for major international courts and tribunals. Jason Rudall is Associate Professor of Public International Law at Leiden University.] Introduction The ICJ has handed down 3 of its 4 judgments in contentious cases on the question...

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