Essays about: "public interest litigation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words public interest litigation.

1. 1. Of Legal Mobilisation and Active Citizenship: Examining NGO Litigation in India to Eradicate Manual Scavenging

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Alena Kahle; [2022]
   Keywords : active citizenship; Dalit rights; legal mobilisation; litigation; manual scavenging; neoliberal governance; public interest litigation; sanitation; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : For decades, manual scavengers – people cleaning and engaging with human faeces as part of the sanitation chain, most of whom are Dalits – in India have been protesting against the severe health risks and exploitation associated with their work. Despite the enactment of stricter laws and high-profile court cases and wins, manual scavenging persists rampantly. READ MORE

3. 2. A paradigm shift from voluntary to court-ordered climate change mitigation? The potentials and challenges of a human rights-based approach

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Kimberly de Bruijn; [2020]
   Keywords : international human rights law; public international law; climate change; climate change mitigation; public interest litigation; actio popularis; human rights approach; united nations framework convention on climate change; paris agreement; rule of law; democracy; right to life; right to respect for private and family life; european convention on human rights; african charter on human and peoples rights; american convention on human rights; right to a healthy environment; environmental law; united nations; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The central theme of this thesis is anthropogenic climate change; governments' inability to create an effective, inclusive response mechanism that manages to mitigate anthropogenic emissions; and advocates efforts to coerce States to act by invoking State responsibility in adjudicatory dispute settlement processes. States' failure to act in accordance with scientific risk assessments and to mitigate polluting activities has led underrepresented groups to increasingly lose trust in their respective executive and legislative branches, and, by means of protest, these advocates are now turning to court. READ MORE

4. 3. Trademark Co-Existence Agreements in the Perspective of EU Competition Law

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Carin Thomsen; [2013-02-12]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : In this thesis the author has investigated and analysed the treatment of trademark co-existence agreements from a European Union Competition law perspective, i.e. agreements which allow the parties to set rules by which the marks can peacefully co-exist without any likelihood of confusion. READ MORE

5. 4. The Implementation of the Passing-on-defence into EU law

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Malin Berggren; [2013]
   Keywords : EU law; Comparative law; Competition law; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Since 2001 the CJEU has repeatedly stated that, as a matter of EU law, any individual must be able to obtain compensation for harm suffered because of an infringement of EU competition law. As of today, victims of infringements of EU competition law are unable to effectively exercise that EU right. READ MORE

6. 5. The Freedom to Provide Services and the Right to Establishment -V- The Right to Strike

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Thomas Welin; [2009]
   Keywords : EG-rätt; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyse the problems surrounding the conflict between fundamental rights and common market freedoms, as they appear in the Laval and Viking judgements. The overall question that this work intends to answer is when a collective action undertaken by trade unions of a Member State for curbing the freedom of an undertaking to enter the market of another Member State is legitimate or illegitimate under Community law. READ MORE