A federal citizenship statute setting different residency requirements for U.S. citizen fathers and mothers seeking to transmit birthright citizenship to their non-marital children born outside the U.S...

Le règlement n° 833/2014 du 31 juillet 2014 impose à certains établissements financiers russes des restrictions d’accès au marché des capitaux.

Gérard Haas décrypte l'actualité. Le groupe Meta a décidé de bannir les médias d'Etat russes de ses plateformes Youtube, Instagram, Whatsapp.

On 2 April 2015, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that two dawn raids carried out by the French Competition Authority in 2007 infringed Articles 6(1) and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

This post was prepared by Corentin Chevallier, an attorney in Foley Hoag's Paris office. A French language copy is available here.

Companies will soon need to address human rights in their compliance programs in light of the new global human rights sanctions regime, adopted by the European Union on Dec. 7, 2020.

On March 27, 2017, the French Parliament adopted a Law On The Duty Of Vigilance For Parent And Subcontracting Companies.

Countries throughout Europe have adopted due diligence laws to regulate ESG risks along supply chains. In addition, the European Union is currently working on Human Rights Due Diligence legislation that may affect a wide range of companies doing business in Europe and worldwide.

On May 17, 2005 the Supreme Court delivered a particularly innovative judgment, which extends employers' powers to monitor personal files saved by employees to their computer's hard drive at work.

The plaintiffs did fail in the first instance before the criminal Court of Paris but did bring an appeal before the court of appeal of Paris.

The new French law on the duty of vigilance imposes new obligations on companies to prevent human rights, health and environmental disasters with prohibitive fines in case of non-compliance...

The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence. Companies will be required to identify and, where necessary, prevent, end or mitigate the adverse impacts...

In a ruling issued on November 30, 2022, the First Civil Chamber of the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court) ruled that the principle of compensatory allowance should prevail...

Following decisions on procedural matters (court venue and prior conciliation), the case brought by the SUD PTT union against the company named La Poste (French postal services) is the first to result in a decision...

La plus haute juridiction administrative a récemment précisé les limites dans lesquelles le Gouvernement français...

En septembre dernier, nous attirions votre attention sur la volonté du Royaume-Uni de s'écarter du cadre règlementaire européen de protection des données suite au Brexit...

En Lituanie - comme en France par ailleurs – les autorités de concurrence disposent d'importants pouvoirs d'enquêtes, parmi lesquels des pouvoirs de visite et de saisie.

How to effectively combat SLAPPs that can be initiated against journalists and human rights defenders when they denounce facts that are upsetting for the targeted persons?

Dans un arrêt du 30 novembre 2022, la première chambre civile de la Cour de cassation a fait prévaloir le principe de la prestation compensatoire sur celui du droit de propriété...

La liberté d'expression, bien que fondamentale, est soumise à des limites essentielles pour...