Universität Wien

030583 SE Climate Change and Private International Law (2023W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 3 - Rechtswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 15 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 11.10. 15:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum SEM62 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum 6.OG (Kickoff Class)
  • Wednesday 17.01. 09:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum SEM31 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 3.OG
  • Thursday 18.01. 09:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum SEM31 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 3.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course is designed to give students the opportunity to deal in-depth with questions of private international law related to climate change. The seminar will allow students to conduct scientific research and deepen their knowledge of private international law by discussing the particular issues raised by climate change litigation cases.

The seminar will be held together with the seminar in “International Law” (030570) by Prof. Waibel and the seminar “Climate Change and Private Law” (030682) by Prof. Nitsch.

At the beginning of the course, students will be able to choose a topic from a list of suggestions or alternatively propose a topic themselves. Students will then write a seminar paper min. 50,000 characters (incl. spaces and footnotes) on the chosen topic. The main findings are to be presented and discussed during the oral discussion. After the discussion, students will have to hand in a paper that meets the highest scientific standards. The papers can be written in German or English.

Assessment and permitted materials

Students will be assessed on the basis of their written seminar paper, as well as their oral presentation and discussion of their findings.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The assessment criteria include notably: the comprehensive treatment of the relevant issues; the conciseness of the presentation; the persuasiveness, originality, and level of argumentation; the independence of the line of thought; the extent of the research that was conducted; and the compliance with formalities and guidelines. In addition to the written work, the presentation and participation in the discussions of other participants' papers can also be positively considered in the assessment.

The seminar is open to diploma students, IREWI and doctoral students.

Examination topics

Private International Law; Private Law; Comparative Law

Reading list

I. General literature on scientific papers

• Büdenbender/Bachert/Humbert, “Hinweise für das Verfassen von Seminararbeiten”, JuS (2002) 24.

• Möllers, Juristische Arbeitstechnik und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten9 (2018).

II. Literature to introduce the topic (non-exhaustive)

• Edoardo Alvares Armas, “Le contentieux international privé en matière de changement climatique à l'épreuve de l'article 17 du règlement Rome II”, Revue de droit international d'Assas (2020) 109.

• Emeric Prévost, Achieving Climate Change Justice: Some Private International Law Issues, available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4450102.

• Erik Pöttker, Klimahaftungsrecht (2014).

• Eva-Maria Kieninger, “Das internationale Privat- und Verfahrensrecht der Klimahaftung”, IPrax (2022) 1

• Horatia Muir Watt, “Les actions de groupe et le droit international privé: une lame de fond?”, Revue critique de droit international privé (2022) 305.

• Marc-Philippe Weller and Mai-Lan Tran, “Klimaklagen im Rechtsvergleich – private enforcement als weltweiter Trend?”, ZEuP (2021) 573.

• Matthias Lehmann and Florian Eichel, “Globaler Klimawandel und Internationales Privatrecht – Zuständigkeit und anzuwendendes Recht für transnationale Klagen wegen klimawandelbedingter Individualschäden”, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, (2019) 77.

• Recommendation of the European Group for Private International Law (GEDIP/EGPIL) to the European Commission concerning the Private international law aspects of the future Instrument of the European Union on [Corporate Due Diligence and Corporate Accountability] (2021).

• Will Frank, “Störerhaftung für Klimaschäden?”, NVwZ (2017) 664.

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