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French Court finds the French State has committed a fault because of insufficient measures taken in terms of air quality
On 25th June 2019, the court of Montreuil found that "the [French] State has committed a fault because of insufficient measures taken in terms of air quality to remedy the overrun, between 2012 and 2016, in the region Ile -de-France, of the treshold values for the...
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Ecuador: Constitutional Court approves same-sex marriage
On June 13th 2019, Ecuador's Constitutional Court approved same-sex marriage ( 5-to-4 ruling). Ecuador joins a handful of Latin American nations — Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia and Uruguay — that have legalized same-sex marriage in the recent years. More...
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Canada and EU agree on interim alternative to WTO Appellate Body
Canada and the EU have agreed a new trade dispute resolution system as a temporary substitute to the WTO's Appellate Body, which is edging towards collapse. Over the past 2 years, US president Donald Trump has consistently blocked replacements for retiring judges....
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Taiwan passes same-sex marriage legislation
On 17 May 2019, the Taiwanese Parliament has approved a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, a landmark decision making the island the first place in Asia to pass same-sex marriage legislation More information can be found via this link : CNN Le Monde
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Droit français – droit québécois : inspirations mutuelles
Droit français - droit québécois : inspirations mutuelles Par : Didier Cholet, Sylvio Normand, ISBN 978-2-89730-537-6, Éditions Yvon BlaisThe summary is reproduced hereafter: "Les droits québécois et français présentent de nombreuses similitudes pour des raisons...
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Constitutions in Times of Financial Crisis
Tom Ginsburg, Mark D. Rosen and Georg VanbergCUP, 2019 ISBN: 9781108492294 "Many constitutions include provisions intended to limit the discretion of governments in economic policy. In times of financial crises, such provisions often come under pressure as a...
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Scholarship 2019-2020 – International Faculty of Comparative Law
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SAVE THE DATE – October 8 2019 – The Use of Comparative Law Methodology in International Arbitration
SAVE THE DATE!8 OCT 2019 - ParisAFTERNOON The International Academy of Comparative Law will be launching its new publication "IUS COMPARATUM" on October 8th 2019 in Paris. The topic of the first volume is: THE USE OF COMPARATIVE LAW METHODOLOGY IN INTERNATIONAL...
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