nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/c7db695de259138a DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260508s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/c7db695de259138a doi eng 342 23 de Jong, Elbert Author aut The BMW and Mercedes Climate Cases - Judicial Restraint at the Bundesgerichtshof? de Jong, Elbert Verfassungsblog 2026-05-08 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Bundesgerichtshof – Germany's highest court of civil jurisdiction – has handed down its first ruling on private climate liability and dismissed the widely discussed lawsuits against BMW and Mercedes. These strategic lawsuits were based on a very specific claim that is hard to replicate in other legal systems. Nevertheless, the rulings contain general considerations that, from a comparative law perspective, reveal a remarkable degree of judicial restraint. CC BY-SA 4.0 BGH Climate Crisis climate litigation Neubauer private law Tort Reiff, Marvin Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-4272-4774 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-bmw-and-mercedes-climate-cases/ raw object