Publications
Switzerland condemned for climate inaction: what consequences?
ACTUALITÉ - 07/05/2024
Condemning Switzerland for climate inaction can rightly be claimed as a historic victory by NGOs. [...]
Shell’s appeal against the MilieuDefensie decision of The Hague Tribunal
ACTUALITÉ - 23/04/2024
The ruling, which Shell is appealing, had been won by MilieuDefensie (Friends of the Earth in the Netherlands), Greenpeace and 17,000 Dutch citizens. Claimed to be a historic victory, it triggered an avalanche of climate lawsuits against energy companies and the banks that finance them. [...]
The International Court of Justice and South Africa's appeal against Israel
ACTUALITÉ - 25/01/2024
On December 29, 2023, the UN International Court of Justice was asked by South Africa to "provisionally" halt Israel's military operations in Gaza - unconditionally - on the grounds of suspected acts of genocide. [...]
Éric Meslin, CEO of the Council of Canadian Academies
ACTUALITÉ - 26/06/2023
It's been 27 years since I last saw my friend Eric Meslin, who is currently Chairman and CEO of the Council of Canadian Academies. And we met again in Paris. [...]
Corporate communications put to the test by greenwashing
ACTUALITÉ - 30/05/2023
On April 19, 2022, the Paris Court of Justice dismissed the "Confédération, Consommation et Cadre de vie" association's claim against Vattenfall Energies S.A., the French subsidiary of a Swedish group operating in France as an alternative electricity supplier. [...]
The Constitutional Court's decision on pension reform: a good lesson in parliamentary law
ACTUALITÉ - 05/05/2023
Noëlle Lenoir, honorary member of the Constitutional Court, lawyer and member of the Scientific Committee of the Laboratoire de la République, looks back at decision no. 2023-849 DC of April 14, 2014 on pension reform. Calling the decision "a good lesson in parliamentary law", she discusses the [...]
PUBLICATION of the collective study: "Le droit comme facteur d'attractivité" (Law as a factor of attractiveness)
ACTUALITÉ - 18/04/2023
On behalf of all the prestigious authors who contributed to the book I edited for the Grand Paris/Ile de France/Capitale Economique association on "le droit comme facteur d'attractivité" (Law as a factor of attractiveness) (Ed. Larcier), I'm delighted. Many thanks to them, as well as to [...]
TRIBUNE in L'Opinion: "The Constitutional Council is not a legislative chamber for 'catching up'" by Noëlle Lenoir
ACTUALITÉ - 13/04/2023
"No more today than in the past, do its members make decisions according to their political or partisan sensibilities". One can legitimately wonder about the purpose of the strike organized this Thursday, April 13, on the eve of the Constitutional Council's deliberation on the pension reform [...]
INTERVIEW with Noëlle Lenoir in Actu-Juridique: "Law: the many strengths and some weaknesses of Paris as a business location"
ACTUALITÉ - 03/03/2023
Can the law be a factor in the attractiveness of a metropolis? Without a doubt, according to the Paris Ile-de-France Capitale Économique association, which has just published a book on the subject with Editions Larcier. Edited by former minister Noëlle Lenoir, the book brings together the opinions [...]