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Why Recognizing the Right to a Healthy Environment Would Strengthen the Environmental Human Rights Framework under the European Convention on Human Rights – Go Health Pro

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Why Recognizing the Right to a Healthy Environment Would Strengthen the Environmental Human Rights Framework under the European Convention on Human Rights – Go Health Pro

While the UNGA has recognised the right to a healthy environment (R2HE) as a human right (see the previous post on this by Otto Spijkers here), the Council of Europe (CoE) has gone one step further, instituting a formal procedure that could lead to the adoption of such right in a “legal binding instrument”. This … Read more

What is the Future of the Prohibition Against Collective Expulsion in the European Human Rights Legal Framework? – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

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What is the Future of the Prohibition Against Collective Expulsion in the European Human Rights Legal Framework? – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

On 12 February 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (“the Court”) held hearings in three cases concerning collective expulsions: R.A. and Others v. Poland (42120/21), H.M.M. and Others v. Latvia (42165/21) and C.O.C.G. and Others v. Lithuania (17764/22). These cases included alleged migrant instrumentalisation and hybrid threats orchestrated by Belarus (and Russia) as a … Read more

Judicial Independence and the EU-Switzerland Framework Treaty – Go Health Pro

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Why Recognizing the Right to a Healthy Environment Would Strengthen the Environmental Human Rights Framework under the European Convention on Human Rights – Go Health Pro

The European Union is about to finalise a package of sectoral treaties with Switzerland. Its goal is to institutionalise five existing treaties and to conclude three new ones. At the core of these agreements lies the dispute settlement mechanism, modelled after the EU’s agreements with the post-Soviet states of Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. This … Read more

Unpacking (fuzzy) cultural preservation perspectives within the Falepili Union Treaty framework – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

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What is the Future of the Prohibition Against Collective Expulsion in the European Human Rights Legal Framework? – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

On 28 August 2024, the Falepili Union Treaty between Tuvalu and Australia entered into force. As the first climate resettlement treaty ever adopted in history, providing a defined climate mobility pathway, this peculiar legal instrument on climate cooperation offers numerous reflections enshrined in its first four articles (e.g. the recognition of Tuvalu’s sovereignty and continuity … Read more

The unsuccessful appeal in Clifford Chance v SocGen on choice of court in a framework agreement. – gavc law – geert van calster – Go Health Pro

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The unsuccessful appeal in Clifford Chance v SocGen on choice of court in a framework agreement. – gavc law – geert van calster – Go Health Pro

I reviewed the first instance judgment in Clifford Change v SocGen here. Soc Gen have unsuccessfully appealed, see Clifford Chance LLP & Anor v Societe Generale SA (Rev1) [2025] EWCA Civ 14, with Phillips LJ not taking up much space to do so. Viz the question whether Clifford Change LLP was bound, he holds [46] … Read more