Lucia Sommerer

🔥 ⚖️ #ClimateLitigation history happening right now at Higher Court of Hamm🇩🇪: follow with us this precedent-setting ruling in #SaulvsRWE.
🗣️ Today's decision cld be a turning point in efforts to make polluters pay for climate harms.
🧵 thread with context, insights from the Court & legal arguments👇

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Ecocentrism, Harm and Morality in Environmental Crime Proceedings #recommendedread #courts #ecocentrism
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Razzia gegen Umweltkriminelle in NRW: Beschuldigte sollen illegal Schadstoffe im Tagebau Garzweiler entsorgt haben Mit einem Großaufgebot sind Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft gegen ein kriminelles Netzwerk von Umweltsündern vorgegangen. Was den Beschuldigten vorgeworfen wird und wo in NRW die Durchsuchungen stattfa...

#Umweltkriminalität #Wirtschaftskriminalität aktuell

rp-online.de/nrw/panorama...

Tackling Environmental Crime: Germany, INTERPOL and WWF unite efforts German Federal Environment Ministry funds first ever project with INTERPOL through its International Climate Initiative

#mustread #EnvironmentalCrime #Interpol www.interpol.int/News-and-Eve...

#mustread article on: „The Profit-Environment Paradox: Analyzing the Impact of International Financial Institutions on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) through the Lens of Green Criminology“

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Cum-Ex-Skandal - Razzia bei renommiertem Universitätsprofessor Die Staatsanwaltschaft Köln ermittelt nach Recherchen von WDR, NDR und SZ gegen einen Universitätsprofessor, der einst Cum-Ex-Gutachten verfasst hatte. Der Fall wirft ein Schlaglicht auf die Rolle der...

🔴 #Exklusiv: #CumEx-Razzia bei renommiertem Universitätsprofessor aus NRW. Es geht um CumEx-Gutachten. Welche Rolle spielen Wissenschaftler im größten deutschen Steuerskandal? 👇
www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

See also my paper on "Criminology of Crime Avoidance" CEJ 2022 perma.cc/4APZ-8CRV

Cum-Ex Legal Opinions: Where Does Aiding & Abetting Begin?
Recent raid on a tax law professor raises question of when legal opinions in Cum-Ex scandal cross into criminal liability. In attached paper (perma.cc/5PYN-6WXE) as well as in my upcoming book “Anti-Levaithan” I explored this gray area.

Financial sector fails to account for climate risks when granting loans, insurance – supervisors Banks and insurers have not been sufficiently accounting for the impacts of climate change, according to a risk report by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). Financial authorities need better risk management for natural disasters, the authority warned, as extreme weather events could mean loans are not paid back and insurers might have to shoulder enormous claims, the country's financial watchdog institution said. "Companies in the financial sector need to look more closely at the physical risks of climate change," said BaFin head Mark Branson, Süddeutsche Zeitung reported.

Financial sector fails to account for climate risks when granting loans, insurance – supervisors

Banks and insurers need better risk management for natural disasters, said BaFin

🌍#mustread: #AlessandroPelizzon’s “Ecological Jurisprudence” reimagines legal systems to address humanity’s responsibility to nature. My research in #greencriminology aligns, exploring financial flows behind green crimes. Stay tuned! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

🌍💸 #BrookeHarrington’s “Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism” reveals how offshore finance erodes democracy and fuels inequality. My upcoming book, “Anti-Leviathan,” builds on this, exposing the role of lawyers, bankers, and advisors in enabling these systems. Stay tuned!

Who owns all the vessels that are up to no good? Illegal fishing, labor violations, pollution, human trafficking. Who actually profits from this? We're working hard to find out, and we will publish what we find. Help us spread the word.
cc @openownership.bsky.social

Title slide of my talk "Going Beyond Research: Climate Change Engagement of Scientists"

What do scientists think about their role on a planet in crisis? How engaged are they in climate action, and what barriers do they see to getting more involved?

Thanks to @researchersdesk.bsky.social for recording my talk! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTvP...

Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/1cAjC...

Bayern: Lehramtsstudentin wegen Klimaschutzaktivitäten vom Schuldienst ausgeschlossen Eine 28-jährige Lehramtsstudentin darf ihr Referendariat in Bayern nicht antreten. Laut einem Medienbericht hängt dies mit ihren politischen Aktivitäten zum Klimaschutz zusammen. Auch Wahlplakate der ...

Education ministry in Germany (Bavaria…) does not grant climate activist their teacher license because the term profit maximization used by the activist is "related to communist ideology" seen as "irreconcilable with a liberal democratic order." 🤡

I was jailed for four years for a non-violent climate protest – this is my prison diary I was one of a group of Just Stop Oil activists given the longest-ever UK sentences for peaceful protest after blocking a motorway. Six months into my incarceration, this is what I have learned

"A UN rapporteur had attended our trial and said our sentences were “not acceptable in a democracy” "

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Where Pressure Meets Practice: Georgetown Law Students Hone Legal Skills in ‘Week One’ Simulation Courses Short timelines, insufficient information and unrealistic expectations: Those were the constraints students faced in the capstone simulation for the course “Cybersecurity Incident Response: Legal Lead...

In the capstone simulation for the course “Cybersecurity Incident Response: Legal Leadership During Cyber Crisis,” students roleplayed lawyers and corporate staff for a hotel chain navigating a potential data breach and threats from cyber threat actors demanding some $20 million dollars in payment.

Young Sustainability Law 2025

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I post scholarly material, political rants & occasional snark here. As someone said, come for the insights/information/education, stay for rants/satire.😄
Here’s info on my latest book!🧵⬇️

"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."

— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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How We Sold Our Future: The Failure to Fight Climate Change

For decades we have known about the dangers of global warming. How can we explain our failure to take action?

New book by MPIfG-Director Jens Beckert out now:

www.mpifg.de/1315877/2025...

#mustread Regunberg et al., Causing or Risking Climate Catastrophe, NYU Env. Law J

nyuelj.org/2025/01/caus...

go.bsky.app/Be5ABiJ

Honored to join the expert panel of Germany's Anti Financial Crime Alliance (AFCA) working at the intersection of financial and environmental crime.🌱

🌱I will be moderating a panel at the Defund Meat Conference, held at the MPI in Heidelberg, Germany, next week.
The conference gathers experts, including @KatharinaPistor and @CassSunstein, to rethink global meat governance through legal, economic, and policy lenses.🌍

www.mpil.de/files/pdf6/d...

EJAtlas - Global Atlas of Environmental Justice ejatlas.org

#MustRead: How To Make Millions As a Professional Whistleblower archive.is/us6Qr

Extending the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) mandate to Green Crime? - #mustread proposal by #FrédéricBaab perma.cc/3HAK-SCBW