Lucia Sommerer
@lsommerer.bsky.social
Law JProf @UniHalle | Fellow @YaleISP | Law x Art
Financial Crime, Green Crime, AI
Financial Crime, Green Crime, AI
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🔥 ⚖️ #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👇
🗣️ 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👇
May 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
🔥 ⚖️ #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👇
🗣️ 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👇
Ecocentrism, Harm and Morality in Environmental Crime Proceedings #recommendedread #courts #ecocentrism
doi.org/10.5771/0934...
doi.org/10.5771/0934...
May 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Ecocentrism, Harm and Morality in Environmental Crime Proceedings #recommendedread #courts #ecocentrism
doi.org/10.5771/0934...
doi.org/10.5771/0934...
#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“
March 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
#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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Have you picked up the new edition of Research Methods for Law? This essential handbook provides students of law, sociology, psychology and criminology with expert guidance on both research methods and ethics!
Save 30% off your copy with code NEW30: edin.ac/3YC2lWN
Save 30% off your copy with code NEW30: edin.ac/3YC2lWN
January 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Have you picked up the new edition of Research Methods for Law? This essential handbook provides students of law, sociology, psychology and criminology with expert guidance on both research methods and ethics!
Save 30% off your copy with code NEW30: edin.ac/3YC2lWN
Save 30% off your copy with code NEW30: edin.ac/3YC2lWN
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🔴 #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...
www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...
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...
www.tagesschau.de
January 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🔴 #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...
www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...
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.
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.
January 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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.
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.
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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
Banks and insurers need better risk management for natural disasters, said BaFin
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.
www.cleanenergywire.org
January 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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
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...
January 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🌍#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!
January 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
🌍💸 #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!
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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
cc @openownership.bsky.social
Request For Proposal (RFP) - Vessel beneficial ownership information landscape analysis Consultant
Remote
buff.ly
January 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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
cc @openownership.bsky.social
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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...
Thanks to @researchersdesk.bsky.social for recording my talk! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTvP...
Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/1cAjC...
January 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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...
Thanks to @researchersdesk.bsky.social for recording my talk! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTvP...
Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/1cAjC...
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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." 🤡
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 ...
www.spiegel.de
January 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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." 🤡
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"A UN rapporteur had attended our trial and said our sentences were “not acceptable in a democracy” "
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"A UN rapporteur had attended our trial and said our sentences were “not acceptable in a democracy” "
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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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.
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...
www.law.georgetown.edu
January 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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.
🌍 Passionate about the environment & sustainability law? PhD in environmental crime/law or related fields? Share your research at JNR 2025 (19–21 June, Hamburg)! Abstracts (non-lawyers welcome) due 28 Feb. Financial support for speakers! 💡 More: www.jnr2025.de #JNR2025
Young Sustainability Law 2025
www.jnr2025.de
January 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🌍 Passionate about the environment & sustainability law? PhD in environmental crime/law or related fields? Share your research at JNR 2025 (19–21 June, Hamburg)! Abstracts (non-lawyers welcome) due 28 Feb. Financial support for speakers! 💡 More: www.jnr2025.de #JNR2025
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"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
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
January 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"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
— 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...
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...
December 13, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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...
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...
nyuelj.org/2025/01/caus...
January 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
#mustread Regunberg et al., Causing or Risking Climate Catastrophe, NYU Env. Law J
nyuelj.org/2025/01/caus...
nyuelj.org/2025/01/caus...
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January 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Honored to join the expert panel of Germany's Anti Financial Crime Alliance (AFCA) working at the intersection of financial and environmental crime.🌱
January 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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...
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...
www.mpil.de
January 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🌱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...
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
September 7, 2024 at 5:51 PM
EJAtlas - Global Atlas of Environmental Justice ejatlas.org