Online-Symposium: Tackling Human Rights, Environmental Protection and Business – A Multilevel Approach

Fast-Tracking the Green Transition in the EU: How RED III May Shield Corporations from Human Rights Accountability

This Saar Brief explores how the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED III), while designed to fast-track the green transition, may inadvertently weaken corporate accountability for human rights and environmental impacts. It calls for integrating binding due diligence and human-rights obligations into the EU’s climate framework to ensure that the transition is not only fast, but also fair and sustainable.

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Online-Symposium: Tackling Human Rights, Environmental Protection and Business – A Multilevel Approach

The Contested Soul of Corporate Accountability: Navigating the CSDDD’s Ambition and Its Political Unravelling

The first contribution to our Symposium analyses the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) as a landmark step in the EU’s move from voluntary corporate responsibility to binding accountability. It traces how this ambitious project, once seen as a breakthrough, is now facing systematic political rollback that threatens to undermine its enforcement mechanisms and weaken its promise of effective corporate justice.

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Aktuelles / Allgemein / EuGH / Europarecht / Saar Case Notes

Swissgrid AG versus European Commission (C-121/23 P)

This Case Note on Swissgrid v Commission analyses the Court of Justice’s interpretation of what constitutes a challengeable act under Article 263 TFEU and the admissibility of actions brought by non-EU undertakings. It summarises the case’s factual and procedural background and evaluates the judgment’s implications for judicial review in administrative decision-making and procedural rights in EU energy and competition law.

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Allgemein / EuGH / Europarecht

From Search Engines to Large Language Models: Re-evaluating the Right to Be Forgotten in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

This Saar Blueprint examines whether the EU’s Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF), first established in Google Spain, can and should apply to Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. By comparing search engines and LLMs, it highlights the new legal and technical challenges these AI systems pose for data protection under the GDPR. The author concludes that while RTBF could in principle extend to LLMs, effective enforcement will depend on clearer legal guidance and technological solutions.

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Allgemein / EGMR / Europarecht / Globaler Menschenrechtsschutz / Völker- und Europarecht / Völkerrecht

Thomas Giegerich’s book “The Human Right to Democracy in Multilevel Systems at a Time of Democratic Backsliding – Global, Regional and European Union Perspectives” has just been published online by Springer Nature (open access).

Thomas Giegerich’s new open access book “The Human Right to Democracy in Multilevel Systems at a Time of Democratic Backsliding” explores how human rights can protect democracy within global, regional, and EU frameworks. It analyses the interdependence between national and international democracy and the EU’s role as a model multilevel system. The book offers a comprehensive legal perspective on how to counter democratic backsliding.

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