European Law

• Article

Is It Time?

10.09.2024

Paulina Rundel

While the UN and almost every region around the world have explicitly recognized the right to a healthy environment, there is one region that still lacks this right: Europe. But...

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• Media

International and European Law before the Meta Oversight Board

16.01.2024

Jed Odermatt

This episode of the Völkerrechtliche Tagesthemen focuses on the International and European Law before the Meta Oversight Board. In January 2021, the Meta Oversight Board published its first decisions regarding...

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• Article

Legal and Judicial Responses to Disaster Displacement in Italy, Austria and Sweden

19.10.2022

Chiara Scissa Francesca Biondi Dal Monte Matthew Scott Margit Ammer Monika Mayrhofer

Climate change and the growing climate crisis are expected to force more and more people to leave their homes. EU law and policy, however, do not explicitly address disaster displacement,...

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• Article

Take It or Break It?

28.09.2022

Louis Valentino Kolkmeyer

Vor gut sechs Jahren hat das britische Volk per Referendum für den Austritt des Vereinigten Königreichs (VK) aus der Europäischen Union (EU) gestimmt (Brexit). Dystopien wie ein frequenter Gebrauch von...

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• Article

Was wird aus der Beistandsklausel der EU?

08.08.2022

Jasper Kamradt

Finnland und Schweden haben seit dem Abend des 28. Juni Gewissheit: Beide werden Mitglieder im Verteidigungsbündnis der NATO. Nach einigen Zugeständnissen an die Türkei (ebenfalls NATO-Mitglied) können nun die Verfahren...

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• Symposium
• Framing Business & Human Rights?

How to Avoid Politicised Monitoring?

23.06.2022

Nils-Hendrik Grohmann

It is one thing to draft international laws that protect individuals, but quite another to ensure their implementation and compliance by State parties. Taking into consideration existing framework conventions, particularly...

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• Symposium
• Framing Business & Human Rights?

Caught between Principles and Perfectionism

21.06.2022

Lucas Roorda

One of the driving forces behind the movement towards a legally binding instrument on business and human rights (BHR) has been the need for effective remedies for victims of corporate...

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