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dc.contributor.authorBERTRAM, Daniel Alexander
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-25T12:34:35Z
dc.date.available2022-07-25T12:34:35Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationGerman law journal, 2022, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 738-755en
dc.identifier.issn2071-8322
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/74808
dc.descriptionPublished online: 29 June 2022en
dc.description.abstractCorporations are notoriously powerful actors in the current configuration of our globalized economy. Their activities play a key role in shaping a new age of ecological precarity—the Anthropocene. Much of this environmental damage occurs in cross-border settings, hampering victims’ access to legal remedies due to widespread corporate impunity and institutional hurdles in host states. Several transnational lawsuits have recently tested the willingness of European home state judiciaries to adjudicate the extraterritorial conduct of domestic corporations. To contribute to a more nuanced understanding of this novel phenomenon, this article analyzes three legal sagas from a comparative perspective: Vedanta v. Lungowe (England & Wales), Dooh v. Shell (The Netherlands) and Lliuya v. RWE (Germany). It argues that transnational tort suits remain a problematic vehicle for the attainment of procedural and substantial environmental justice. The inherent limitations of tort law, extra-legal hurdles to transnational litigation, and the socio-cultural contingency of legal institutions severely circumscribe the space for legal contestations of the corporate Anthropocene.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - CUP Transformative Agreement (2020-2022)en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofGerman law journalen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.titleEnvironmental justice “light”? : transnational tort litigation in the corporate anthropoceneen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/glj.2022.45
dc.identifier.volume23en
dc.identifier.startpage738en
dc.identifier.endpage755en
dc.identifier.issue5en
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