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Peter Gilles : 75 Jahre
(2013)
Der EGMR in Straßburg hat letzte Woche eine Entscheidung veröffentlicht, die in diesen Zeiten der Staatsschuldenkrise die Banken die Ohren spitzen lassen dürfte: Die Mitgliedsstaaten der EMRK dürfen ihre insolventen Kommunen nicht davor schützen, dass deren Gläubiger ihre rechtskräftig festgestellten Ansprüche eintreiben und in das Kommunalvermögen vollstrecken. Ein kommunales Insolvenzrecht, das vollstreckbare Titel wirkungslos macht, verstößt nach Meinung einer EGMR-Kammer gegen die Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention. Denn solche Titel gelten als Eigentum, und das setzt sich auch gegen das öffentliche Interesse durch, die kommunalen Schulen, Bibliotheken und Schwimmbäder vor dem Gerichtsvollzieher zu schützen. ...
[Tagungsbericht] Making finance sustainable: Ten years equator principles – success or letdown?
(2013)
In 2003, a number of banks adopted the Equator Principles (EPs), a voluntary Code of Conduct based on the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) performance standards, to ensure the ecological and social sustainability of project finance. These so called Equator Principles Financial Institutions (EPFI) commit to requiring their borrowers to adopt sustainable management plans of environmental and social risks associated with their projects. The Principles apply to the project finance business segment of the banks and cover projects with a total cost of US $10 million or more. While for long developing countries relied on World Bank and other public assistance to finance infrastructure projects there has occurred a shift in recent years to private funding. The NGOs have been frustrated by this shift of project finance as they had spent their resources to exercise pressure on the public financial institutions to incorporate environmental and social standards in their project finance activities. However, after a shift of NGO pressure to private financial institutions the latter adopted the EPs for fear of reputational risks. NGOs had laid down their own more ambitious ideas about sustainable finance in the Collevecchio Declaration on Financial Institutions and Sustainability. Legally speaking, the EPs are a self-regulatory soft law instrument. However, it has a hard law dimension as the Equator Banks require their borrowers to comply with the EPs through covenants in the loan contracts that may trigger a default in a case of violation. ...
In 2003, a number of banks adopted the Equator Principles (EPs), a voluntary Code of Conduct based on the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) performance standards, to ensure the ecological and social sustainability of project finance. These so called Equator Principles Financial Institutions (EPFI) commit to requiring their borrowers to adopt sustainable management plans of environmental and social risks associated with their projects. The Principles apply to the project finance business segment of the banks and cover projects with a total cost of US $10 million or more. While for long developing countries relied on World Bank and other public assistance to finance infrastructure projects there has occurred a shift in recent years to private funding. The NGOs have been frustrated by this shift of project finance as they had spent their resources to exercise pressure on the public financial institutions to incorporate environmental and social standards in their project finance activities. However, after a shift of NGO pressure to private financial institutions the latter adopted the EPs for fear of reputational risks. NGOs had laid down their own more ambitious ideas about sustainable finance in the Collevecchio Declaration on Financial Institutions and Sustainability. Legally speaking, the EPs are a self-regulatory soft law instrument. However, it has a hard law dimension as the Equator Banks require their borrowers to comply with the EPs through covenants in the loan contracts that may trigger a default in a case of violation. ...
Ab Donnerstag, 21. November, wollen wir mit Wissenschaftler_innen und Praktiker_innen aus Recht und Netzpolitik über die rechtlichen und gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen des Persönlichkeitsschutzes im Internet diskutieren. In der Veranstaltungsreihe "Persönlichkeitsrecht 2.0" an der HU Berlin, sollen die Entfaltung und Verletzung der Persönlichkeitsrechte im Internet wissenschaftlich aufgearbeitet werden.
During the late Middle Ages, the subject of Berman’s focus, the West, equalled a Europe whose overseas expansion had not yet begun. This recalls the "Europe of legal historians" as their attempt, efficiently caricatured by Dieter Simon, to determine the borders of the continent on the basis of a medieval state of affairs. Such a historical justification of geopolitical concepts is risky, but nonetheless common. In the Middle East, the borders of Biblical regions legitimize present or future frontiers. Berman shared the usual ideas of legal history as regards the modern being nothing else than a protraction or renewal of the old, when he identified the papal revolution of 1075 as the factor having durably impregnated western legal culture. ...