http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210615-193332-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-courts-strike-back/ The Courts Strike Back Eckes, Christina eng 2021-06-15 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 climate change climate change litigation Paris Agreement Shell Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The Shell case, decided by the Hague District Court on 26 May 2021, is part of a growing body of climate cases. What the Shell case does is that it liberates the political-decision maker from the suffocating grip of investor state dispute settlement mechanisms, in particular the mechanism under the Energy Charter Treaty.