Jean Monnet Saar – Seite 66

Der EuGH und der EGMR – Lösung in Sicht für den EMRK-Beitritt der EU?

Dieser Beitrag untersucht, warum der erste Entwurf zum EU-Beitritt zur EMRK 2014 spektakulär am EuGH scheiterte und wie der neue Entwurf von 2023 versucht, diese zentralen Hürden auszuräumen. Zugleich zeigt er, weshalb das ungelöste GASP-Problem weiterhin den entscheidenden Stolperstein bildet und nun ein erneutes Gutachtenverfahren vor dem EuGH angestoßen wurde.

Environmental Due Diligence as a Precondition to Treaty Protection: Reframing International Investment Law Through Corporate Governance Norms

This article argues that environmental due diligence (EDD) should become a mandatory precondition for investment treaty protection. Drawing on the ICJ’s 2025 Climate Advisory Opinion, it calls for linking investor rights to environmental compliance reshaping international investment law into a framework of reciprocal responsibility aligned with global sustainability goals.

Rethinking Corporate Social Responsibility in Times of Armed Conflict

This contribution introduces the emerging concept of “geopolitical responsibility,” arguing that companies can actively shape or intensify international conflicts through their economic activities. It traces how existing soft law instruments, such as the UN Guiding Principles and OECD Guidelines, already call for heightened corporate due diligence in conflict-affected areas. Yet, binding frameworks like the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive overlook this geopolitical dimension, leaving a growing gap between theory and corporate practice.

Ist das Völkerrecht wirklich ohnmächtig?[1]

In Prof. Giegerichs neuem Beitrag, der auf seinen Vortrag im Rahmen der Veranstaltung „Die Ohnmacht des Völkerrechts – Die Rückkehr des Kriegs und der Menschheitsverbrechen“ in der Villa Lessing zurückgeht, widerspricht der Autor entschieden der Annahme, das Völkerrecht habe angesichts aktueller globaler Krisen seine Wirkungskraft verloren. Er zeigt, dass das Völkerrecht trotz struktureller Schwächen seit Jahrhunderten als Ordnungskraft besteht und sich in jeder großen Krise weiterentwickelt hat.

The Stateless Worker Problem: Linking Nationality Law Discrimination to EU Corporate Due Diligence

This contribution examines how gender-discriminatory nationality laws create stateless populations excluded from formal labor markets, revealing a major blind spot in corporate governance and due diligence frameworks. By linking this issue to the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), it calls for expanding the directive’s scope to address nationality-based exclusion as a core human-rights risk.

21. Oktober 2015 Allgemein

The Transpacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations are finished: The Potential Impact on Progress in TTIP

Analysis of the Situation after the Conclusion of the Negotiations for a TPP Agreement By Leif Johan Eliasson* While many European interest groups and national

15. Oktober 2015 Allgemein

Your Facebook Data Just Got a Lot More Secure – Case Analysis C-362/14 Maximillian Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner

Dissecting the Safe Harbor Decision of the ECJ [Note: For a broader overview on the topic look at our recently published Saar Blueprint by Oskar

6. Oktober 2015 Allgemein

Regulation of Technology in the EU and beyond – General Data Protection Regulation, Safe Harbor (C-362/14), Data Retention and more

Saar Blueprint features analysis of Safe Harbor Decision „Maximillian Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner“ (C-362/14) and other recent developments The most recent publication in our

25. September 2015 Allgemein

Vortrag von Prof. Giegerich beim 34. Deutsch-Französischen Juristentreffen in Saarbrücken

Zwischen Europafreundlichkeit und Europaskepsis – Die bundesverfassungsgerichtliche Rechtsprechung zur europäischen Integration Prof. Giegerich hat heute im Rahmen des 34. Deutsch-Französischen Juristentreffens in Saarbrücken einen Vortrag

30. Juli 2015 Allgemein

Case analysis of the ECtHR judgment in Delfi AS v. Estonia (app. No. 64569/09)

The difficulties of information management for intermediaries By Oskar Josef Gstrein[1] A. Introduction “The medium is the message”.[2] This phrase coined by the Canadian philosopher

20. Juli 2015 Allgemein

A Fervent Call For An Immediate Sovereign Debt Restructuring Plan for Greece

A response to the current situation and thoughts on a possible solution by Kanad Bagchi[1] Amidst the worsening situation in Greece, the IMF on 14th