Introduction
It is interesting that the FCA has sought to amplify its guidance in relation to the execution of transactions by branches in CP26/34. However, there is a good argument that the new guidance creates more questions than answers
Yovel on the Dreyfus Affair in Law and Literature
Jonathan Yovel, University of Haifa Faculty of Law, has The Dreyfus Affair: A Law and Literature Account of a Law and Literature Affair, which appears in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities:Alfred Dreyfus (NYPL
Kim Kardashian gets €1 award from Paris court in jewel robbery case
She said the ruling was not about compensation, but “about accountability and recognition”
"In France, we do not ask women to erase themselves. No dogma, no religion is above the laws of the Republic."
Wrote Aurore Bergé, France’s minister for gender equality. And “hard-right” presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said France would “never accept that women’s presence be ‘limited.'”Quoted in “Strike at Eiffel Tower after female staff ‘told to be out of sight’/Women
Luz de reconocimiento sobre Joseph Marie De Gérando, primer profesor de derecho administrativo
LIGHT MY FIRE
The failing New York Times has a scoop on the internal workings of the Supreme Court and how the justices plan and do not plan for how their papers will be handled after they are elevated to the final court
Recognizing Scope 3, Reserving the Remedy: The Paris Court’s TotalEnergies Judgment
This is the first of two consecutive posts on corporate climate accountability. Tomorrow’s post examines the New Zealand government’s decision to legislate away corporate climate tort before trial — a case study in what happens when governments answer the accountability
French Constitutional Council rules that measures to protect minors from social media are unconstitutional
French Constitutional Council (Conseil Constitutionnel) in the Palais Royal, near Louvre, Colonnes de Burren – Paris, France
Decision No. 2026-911 DC of 14 August 2026
Act to protect minors from the risks posed by their use of social networks
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Standing and Remedies in Climate Litigation: How TotalEnergies Echoes KlimaSeniorinnen
The TotalEnergies climate case, whose merits were partially decided by the Paris Judicial Court in June, illustrates how associations may be the gateway through which rights-based climate cases survive. In that case, local governments and NGOs originally brought claims