The Political Appraisal of Public Interest Proceedings

On Friday 29 November Phillip Paiement (Tilburg Law School) will explore the critical role of public interest climate litigation in his inaugural address as Professor of Law and Governance in the Anthropocene.

We’d like to congratulate Professor Paiement and you can read more about his research here and listen to the livestream of his address. ‘Unravelling Litigation of the Anthropocene’ (16:15, 29 november)

Phillip is a collaborator to the strategic climate litigation project and before his public address, he is holding a research seminar titled, The Political Appraisal of Public Interest Proceedings.

Two of our team members, Christina Eckes and Clara Kammeringer, are speaking at the seminar and will give a presentation on ‘Democracy, General Interest, and Representation: Legal and Theoretical Reflecting on Plans to Amend Standing of NGOs in Dutch Courts’.

The Dutch Parliament started an inquiry into imposing further requirements for representativeness for interest organizations with an ideal purpose pursuant to Article 3:305a of the Dutch Civil Code (DCC). Christina and Clara will examine the apparently underlying motivation of the Government to limit the standing of public interest organisations with an ideal purpose against:

(1) the yardsticks developed by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR’s) in KlimaSeniorinnen,

(2) an international comparison of standing rights, and

(3) theoretical considerations on the resilience of democracies.