Journal du droit international: Issue 1 of 2025

The first issue of the Journal du droit international (JDI, Clunet) for 2025 has been released. It contains one article and several case notes relating to private international law issues.

In her contribution, Sandrine Clavel (University of Paris-Saclay) analyses the recently adopted Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (“CS3D”) through the lens of European economic integration and EU values (La directive “Devoir de Vigilance” (CS3D), entre ambition politique et réalisme économique).

The English abstract reads:

The European Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence is a political project with a particularly ambitious agenda. On the one hand, it aims to bolster the social responsibility of major multinational corporations, by making them accountable to civil society and to their own value chains. On the other hand, it aims to use these companies to spread the humanist values now promoted by the European Union into global business practice, by transferring the duty of care to business partners operating exclusively in foreign countries. The undertaking is all the more delicate in that it cannot be carried out without a certain amount of caution, since the competitiveness of European companies must be preserved. The European and national negotiators have therefore engaged in a veritable balancing exercise, producing a text which, while still suffering from a number of shortcomings, represents a major step forward.

The full table of contents of the issue can be accessed here.