Bringing companies to court: autonomies in transition in climate litigation

From Public Duty to Private Obligations: The Evolution of Climate Responsibilities Across Constitutional Systems

This article examines the evolving landscape of climate responsibility in comparative law, highlighting the shift from state-centred obligations to the emerging corporate duty of climate care. Traditionally grounded in public law, climate obligations are increasingly extended to private actors through strategic litigation and judicial transposition of constitutional and international norms. By ...
di Pamela Martino, Full Professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of Bari Aldo Moro

From Tort to Statute and Back: The Interplay of Legal Models in Rights-Based Corporate Climate Litigation and the Rise of a Vigilance Gap Litigation

Efforts to hold transnational corporations legally accountable for their contribution to the climate crisis are intensifying globally, leading to a new wave of strategic litigation. Initial corporate climate litigation, primarily based on tort law, failed due to insurmountable challenges in proving causation and redressability. While a rights turn in climate litigation had gained traction in ...
di Giuseppe Naglieri, Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Comparative Public Law, University of Bari Aldo Moro

Climate Justice in Italy: A Constitutional Perspective on the Role of the Judiciary After the 2022 Reform

The article analyzes the rise of climate litigation in Italy from a constitutional law perspective, focusing on the Giudizio Universale and La Giusta Causa cases. It explores the strategic use of litigation to compel climate action and examines the evolving relationship between the judiciary and political bodies. The analysis highlights the pivotal role of the 2022 constitutional reform of ...
di Luca Dell'Atti, Ricercatore di Diritto costituzionale e pubblico presso l'Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro

Corporate Climate Obligations in EU Law: Litigation, Enforcement, and the Role of the CJEU

This paper explores the evolving role of the European Union (EU) in shaping corporate climate commitments, with a particular focus on the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). It examines the range of formal and informal legal tools—so-called soft law—that the EU uses to enforce climate obligations against private actors, and considers the limitations of ...
di Francesco Spera, PhD candidate in European Law, Legal Science Department, University of Salento, Visiting Professor Centre for Europe, University of Warsaw

Rethinking traditional tort law categories in climate change litigation: a comparative perspective

The paper examines, from a comparative and Law & Economics perspective, the traditional tort law categories used in three of the most important climate change litigation cases, across different jurisdictions.
di Francesca Altamura, Post-doc Fellow of Comparative Private Law, University of Bari Aldo Moro

The metamorphosis of Eia: from traditional administrative procedures to climate litigation challenges

This paper addresses the issues related to recognizing the mandatory value that indirect effects of high greenhouse gas emission extractive projects assume within administrative environmental impact assessment procedures (Eia). Specifically, it analyzes the so-called downstream effects, namely those arising from the final use of products, often beyond the control of the enterprise authorized to ...
di Armando Lorusso, Postdoctoral research fellow in administrative law, Polytechnic University of Bari

Climate Due Diligence and Corporate Liability: an «integrated» compliance perspective

The analysis focuses on the potential for intervention in the field of corporate liability under Legislative Decree No. 231 of 2001, from the perspective of so-called «integrated compliance», following a preliminary examination of certain «challenges» that characterise the traditional criminal law approach to climate litigation. More specifically, it examines the ...
di Caterina Francesca Gala, Ph.D. in Principi giuridici ed istituzioni fra mercati globali e diritti fondamentali, Criminal Law, Department of Law, Aldo Moro University of Bari

TECH 4 GLOBAL HEALTH – OSSERVATORIO SULLA SALUTE GLOBALE PREMESSA ALLA NUOVA RICERCA DELL'OSSERVATORIO LIFE SCIENCE – GLOBAL HEALTH

L’attuale contesto in cui viviamo è caratterizzato da dinamiche articolate e interconnesse, per citarne alcune: una situazione demografica italiana particolarmente complessa, trasformazioni profonde e sempre più veloci, l’evoluzione rapida e costante delle nuove tecnologie, con l’intelligenza artificiale che entra in modo diffuso nella vita quotidiana delle persone ...
di Elisa Zambito Marsala, Responsabile Education Ecosystem and Global Value Programs, Intesa Sanpaolo, Andrea Rossi, Amministratore Delegato e Direttore Generale, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Leandro Pecchia, Professore di Ingegneria Biomedica e Direttore dell’Osservatorio, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

TECH 4 GLOBAL HEALTH – OSSERVATORIO SULLA SALUTE GLOBALE

L’attuale contesto in cui viviamo è caratterizzato da dinamiche articolate e interconnesse, per citarne alcune: una situazione demografica italiana particolarmente complessa, trasformazioni profonde e sempre più veloci, l’evoluzione rapida e costante delle nuove tecnologie, con l’intelligenza artificiale che entra in modo diffuso nella vita quotidiana delle persone ...