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Birgit Hollaus debunks climate lawsuits in MANZ podcast ‘RECHTaktuell’

22/04/2025

The ‘RECHTaktuell’ podcast from the MANZ publishing house regularly highlights topics of particular importance to Austria's legal community.

The ‘RECHTaktuell’ podcast from the MANZ publishing house regularly highlights topics of particular importance to Austria’’s legal community. In April, Birgit Hollaus was invited as an expert to talk about climate lawsuits. In an interview with magazine editor Elisabeth Maier, Birgit Hollaus structures the broad term ‘climate lawsuits’ and discusses typical starting points and concerns of climate lawsuits, illustrated also in the recent KlimaSeniorinnen ua/Switzerland case. Referring to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in this case, she illustrates the potential, but also the criticism that is levelled at climate lawsuits from a legal dogmatic and legal policy perspective. The episode is available directly on the RECHTaktuell podcast website and on popular podcast platforms.

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