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Environmental Law Journal becomes part of Scielo Chile
The publication edited by the Environmental Law Center will be part of an open access collection of Chilean scientific journals in all areas of knowledge.
The Environmental Law Journal, edited by the Environmental Law Center of the Law School of the University of Chile, was admitted to be part of the SciELO - Chile Scientific Electronic Library.
SciELO - Chile is an open access collection of texts from Chilean scientific journals, from all areas of knowledge, which predominantly publish articles resulting from scientific research, and which uses peer review of the manuscripts they receive, which show a growing performance in the indicators of compliance with the indexing criteria.
"We are very pleased with this recognition, which is the result of an effort of continuous improvement of the editorial processes developed by the editorial team, which has resulted in the growing increase in the quality of the articles published over the years," said the director of the Journal, Prof. Valentina Durán Medina, adding "we are grateful for the support of the Faculty, which through its Dean, Prof. Pablo Ruiz-Tagle, and the Journals Program of the Research Department, headed by Prof. Daniel Álvarez, has provided permanent support to the work of the journal."
"Once the collaboration agreement between the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile and the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) is signed, the full incorporation of the journal to this collection will take place, starting in 2022" explained the editor Jorge Ossandón Rosales.
This good news is in addition to the admission, in 2020, of the Environmental Law Journal to the SCOPUS database.
As a result, in 2022 the Environmental Law Journal will already be indexed in Scopus, Redib, DOAJ and Latindex, in addition to ScIELO, with the support of SISIB and the Journals Program of the Research Department of the Law School of the Universidad of Chile.
It should be noted that Issue 16 of this biannual journal will be published on December 31.
Climate litigation in competition law: sustainability though the metaphor of the sword and shield
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The integration between sustainability and competition has been one of the topics of contingent debate in recent years within competition law. Within this new understanding, tensions naturally arise with competition dispositions when economic agents, through agreements, conducts, actions or business strategies in favour of sustainability, generate risks to competition, either through close contact between competitors derived from a sustainable agreement, a dominant position (or abusing of it) in the existence of green alternatives, or a concentration operation in a market with sustainable initiatives. For this same reason, competition control opens a window for initiatives that generate both damages and benefits in sustainability to be evaluated from the classical institutions of the branch and read from the role that climate litigation acquires in achieving more sustainable markets after the verification of harmful effects on sustainability. By the virtue of the above, this article aims to present a series of institutions of competition law but in a sustainable version, exposing on one hand mechanisms to challenge unsustainable practices, and on the other to protect sustainable initiatives, in both cases against competition law within the framework of the tactics, strategies and precedents that characterize climate litigation in this area. The review and analysis in carried out through the development of the doctrinal metaphor of the “sword & shield”, and how it permeates the main institutions of competition law (such as coordinated conducts, unilateral conducts and merger control).Keywords:
climate litigation , sustainability , regulation , competition lawReferences
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