Zivilrechtliche Weltrechtspflege?

With its new Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) the EU is aiming at no less than an improvement of global human rights and environmental standards. In pursuit of these aims the EU extends the directive's scope extraterritorially: it also applies to incidents abroad and even to certain corporations from third states. One of the novelties of the direc- tive is that it adresses the question of private enforcement, in particular the private law liability of corporations which breaks their supply chain duties. This liability is of an overriding mandatory nature, which means that it even applies to cases that would otherwise be gov- erned by the laws of a third state. While the private law liability and its overriding mandatory nature have been - and continue to be - controversial, there is little debate as to whether public international law permits this encroachment on foreign sovereignty. This article tries to reconcile the public international law rules on jurisdiction with the private international law rules on overriding mandatory provisions as well as exorbitant heads of jurisdiction.