Europarecht – Jean Monnet Saar

6. November 2025 Online-Symposium: Tackling Human Rights, Environmental Protection and Business – A Multilevel Approach

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.

3. November 2025 Online-Symposium: Tackling Human Rights, Environmental Protection and Business – A Multilevel Approach

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.

27. Oktober 2025 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.

13. Oktober 2025 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.

7. Oktober 2025 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.

4. August 2025 Online-Symposium: Protecting the Rule of Law in the European Union – Mechanisms and National Responsibility

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Dieser Saar Brief ist Teil des Online-Symposiums mit dem JuWissBlog zum Thema „Schutz der Rechtsstaatlichkeit in der Europäischen Union – Mechanismen und nationale Verantwortung“ und beleuchtet das Verfahren nach Art. 7 EUV und dessen politische Blockierbarkeit im Schutz gemeinsamer EU-Werte. Als wirksames Ergänzungsinstrument wird die Konditionalitätsverordnung hervorgehoben, die finanzielle Sanktionen bei Rechtsstaatsverstößen erlaubt.