I. Introduction Private international law, historically established to resolve cross-border disputes through choice-of-law rules governing jurisdiction and applicable law, currently faces challenges in the era of climate change. Mostly, if not every, environmental damage is a matter of “slow violence” that unfolds diffusely and spreads across borders. Rox Nixon characterised slow violence as an event of gradual, delayed environmental destruction that is “scientifically convol

I. Introduction: When Domestic Penalties Become International Economic Regulation India’s shift from relevant turnover to global turnover is not merely a technical change in domestic competition penalties. Relevant turnover means the turnover attributable only to the goods or services connected with the infringement, the market-linked base the Supreme Court endorsed in Excel Crop Care. Global turnover, by contrast, means the turnover derived from all products and services of

I. Air, Inequality, and a Fragmented Climate Reality Air pollution is a transboundary paradigmatic crisis in the form of a public health crisis and a climate related crisis the causes and effects of which are both cross border elastic. This is a very intangible form of harm that requires the regulative tools that have the power to transform scientific knowledge into actionable items of public policy. One such instrument of governance is Air Quality Index (AQI) through which

Abstract The Sde Teiman camp in the Negev has garnered widespread attention due to the allegations of systematic human rights violations it has faced. Testimonies arising from the released Palestinian detainees expose a spectrum of abuses, including rape, gang-rape, sexual violence, psychological, medical torture and medical neglect leading to amputation. [1] The recent report of sexual violence in the Israeli detainee facilities exposes the collapse of normative safeguards

Summary The recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on Gaza underlined not only the continuing principles of international humanitarian law but also its challenges in modern conflicts. While it reinforced the protection of civilians and access to humanitarian aid, it exposed critical gaps in its enforcement and serious ambiguities in its doctrine, particularly in the context of prolonged and asymmetric wars. This opinion highlights how political realitie

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