Climate Litigation
European courts are increasingly treating climate mitigation duties as rights-based obligations as opposed to policy choices. Drawing on human rights, international law, and climate science, they are giving climate action a ‘constitutional dimension’. This trend is visible in national courts,…
This blog for Human Rights Here written by PhD researcher, Clara Valeria Kammeringer, discusses the 28 May 2025 decision of the Higher Regional Court of Hamm, Germany which established that civil liability for climate change-induced harms anywhere in the world…
De kabinetsplannen voor ontvankelijkheid van NGO’s in het licht van KlimaSeniorinnen Professor Christina Eckes, Clara Kammeringer en August Coenders schreven een artikel voor de juli-editie van het Nederlands Juristenblad. Met dit artikel proberen zij in te haken op de politieke discussie…
On 16 June, we held a roundtable discussion at Spui25 about climate change, law and matters of democracy. Three speakers covered topics including: •Can domestic courts deliver global climate justice?•What tensions arise between democratic decision-making and international climate demands?•How can…
Professors Nathalie Brack and Ramona Coman (ULB) have co-edited a special issue of European Political Science: “Dissensus over Liberal Democracy in Europe“. The issue explores how liberal democracy is increasingly contested and eroded—not just by populist or fringe actors, but across…
On 19 June 2025, the new theme group of the Amsterdam Center for European Studies (ACES) on ‘Climate Dissensus in Europe: Litigation, Representation, and Expertise’ came together for the first time. Christina Eckes, together with Matteo Fermeglia (Humanities) and Luc…
Edited by Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, University of Amsterdam, & Sarah Mead, Climate Litigation Network (CLN) Christina Eckes and her co-authors, Joana Setzer and Jasmina Nedevska, have written a chapter on Separation of Powers in the newly published, ‘The Cambridge Handbook on Climate Litigation’. This…
Professor Christina Eckes will give a keynote speech at this conference at Radboud University, 12-13 June 2025. Titled, ”Climate, Trade, and Human Rights: The EU’s Balancing Act” the talk will explain why the European Union has politically and legally no…
Professor Christina Eckes has written a blogpost for the website, European Law Blog on the implications of KlimaSeniorinnen for the EU’s 2040 emissions reduction commitment. ”Following some pushback, the European Commission postponed the release of the EU’s 2040 emission reduction…
From 22 to 23 May 2025, members of the University of Amsterdam’s Strategic Climate Litigation team will participate in the annual conference of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), hosted this year in Brussels by the Université libre de…
