2/28/2025 5:38:16 PM Clean Industrial Deal: the European Commission sets out new plans to reform competition policy By Alexander Chadd Elizabeth Huang Dr Nele Dhondt Earlier this week, the European Commission (EC) published the Clean Industrial Deal (CID), which sets out a suite of measures designed to...
2/26/2025 2:14:28 PM Atomic Modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty: Incremental Change or Fundamental Reform? - Part II By Samay Shah Aaron Wu Sofía Hurtado Knaster This blog is the second instalment of a two-part series examining the recent amendments to the Energy Charter Treaty. Dispute...
2/24/2025 10:34:31 AM The Commission Work Programme 2025: What’s Next for the Omnibus? By Sabine Dittrich Aaron Wu Helena Campbell Updates in relation to the EU’s proposed sustainability ‘omnibus’ package seem to be coming thick and fast, although distinguishing...
2/21/2025 9:30:09 PM Climate Litigation: Scottish Court Quashes Consents For North Sea Oil And Gas Fields By Peter Wickham Oliver Moir Hywel Davies Samantha Holland +1 more... Show less The Court of Session in Scotland (Scotland’s supreme civil court) has quashed decisions by the previous UK Government to grant consent...
2/20/2025 4:02:11 PM Atomic Modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty: Incremental Change or Fundamental Reform? - Part I By Samay Shah Aaron Wu Sofía Hurtado Knaster This blog is the first instalment of a two-part series examining the recent amendments to the Energy Charter Treaty. Introduction The...
2/19/2025 11:40:51 AM Time to rethink the UK’s approach to modern slavery? Parliamentary inquiry into forced labour in international supply chains By Moira Thompson Oliver Daniel Whitham George Murray Mizan Rahman +1 more... Show less On 21 January, the UK Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (“the Joint Committee”) launched an inquiry into the UK’s legal and...
2/17/2025 5:34:17 PM In House Perspectives on Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence and Reporting By Moira Thompson Oliver George Murray In early February, the Business and Human Rights Lawyers Association brought together lawyers and practitioners from all over the world...
2/4/2025 5:59:05 PM The Omnibus and the Compass: more details emerge of EU plans to simplify sustainability legislation By Harry Hecht Sabine Dittrich Moira Thompson Oliver George Murray +1 more... Show less On 29 January, the European Commission published an official communication on ‘A Competitiveness Compass for the EU’ (‘the Compass’)....
2/4/2025 9:00:57 AM Does antitrust law stand in the way of Net Zero Alliances? By Dr Nele Dhondt Alexander Chadd Caio Rocha At the start of 2025, JP Morgan announced that it was exiting the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), a UN- convened group of leading...
2/3/2025 11:52:39 AM The EU’s Gender Balance Directive: Balance in the Boardroom By Moira Thompson Oliver George Murray Viren Shetty The recently transposed EU Gender Balance on Corporate Boards Directive (the Directive) will require large EU-listed companies to ensure...