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Raworth’s Doughnut as a Compass for a Sustainable City? Lessons from the SUSA Initiative
In its Circular Strategy 2020-2025, Amsterdam relies on the Amsterdam City Doughnut developed by the British economist Kate Raworth. The model depicts an economy where societies and businesses contribute to economic development while respecting [...]
The shifting contours of property: ‘social function’ in the neoliberal era
‘Property', Alexis de Tocqueville wrote on the eve of the uprisings that shook Europe in 1848, ‘will be the great battlefield’. As the long shadow of the French Revolution sealed the demise of the [...]
Reimagining Extractive Capitalism: Learning from Italy’s Banca di Credito Cooperativo
The paradigm of contemporary business is extractive; it is oriented towards generating large profit margins from energy, resources, money, personal data, labour, health and well-being. Extractive capitalism presents us with a particular mentality in [...]
Thinking Infrastructurally About the Law of Multinational Corporations
“If the program of Realists was to lift the veil of legal form to reveal living essences of power and need, the program of the Critics is to lift the veil of power and [...]
Lessons about Lender Liability from Brazil
The recent use of the Lender Liability regime in Brazil by public prosecution can bring fresh ideas for Dutch lawmakers who want tighter controls over investment in socio-environmentally sensible activities. Public prosecutors use this [...]
Friends of the Earth Netherlands versus Royal Dutch Shell: All companies must act against climate change
The 26th of May 2021, the Court of First Instance of The Hague rendered a ground-breaking judgment in a climate case against the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell (RDS).[2] The Court ruled that RDS has [...]
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