Entries (62)

• Access to case files

• Administrative action

• Administrative court

• Administrative law

• Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA)

• Amicus curiae brief

• Civil action

• Civil law

• Command responsibility

• Communication (ICC)

• Complementarity principle

• Constitutional complaint

• Corporate criminal law

• Crimes against humanity

• Criminal complaint (Germany)

• Customary international law

• Dossier

• Due diligence

• Enforced disappearance

• European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

• European Convention on Human Rights

• European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)

• European Ombudsperson

• Freedom of Information Acts

• Gender-based violence

• Geneva Conventions

• Genocide

• German Federal Public Prosecutor

• Hard law/soft law

• Individual complaints

• International Criminal Court (ICC)

• International criminal law

• International Labour Organization (ILO)

• Intertemporal principle

• Investor-state dispute settlement

• Monitoring process

• Monitoring report

• National action plan on business and human rights

• OECD complaint

• OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

• Pinochet Effect

• Postcolonial legal criticism

• Preliminary examination

• Public interest litigation

  Public interest litigation (PIL) is a kind of legal action that is well established in the legal systems of India and Pakistan. PIL is designed to serve a broader public interest, for example in cases where those affected by a wrong cannot afford to bring legal action themselves or for who for other reasons do not have access to the legal system. PIL is unique in that these legal actions can be brought by third parties, including NGOs, on behalf of a large group of affected persons or on behalf of the general public.

• Public international law

• Pushback

• Regional court (Germany)

• Sexual violence

• Special tribunal

• Strategic litigation

• Structural investigation

• Transitional justice

• UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

• UN Convention against Torture

• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

• UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

• UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

• UN Special Rapporteur

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Universal jurisdiction

• War crimes

• Whistleblower