Private international law and conflict of laws

This volume of essays examines whether collective actions can enhance access to justice for multilayer interests.

This book studies ideological divisions within Chinese legal academia and their relationship to arguments about the rule of law.

A Conflict of Laws Companion brings together a group of expert authors to write essays in honour of Professor Adrian Briggs QC.

International commercial arbitration and litigation are often seen as competing fora, fields of law, or markets.

This book considers the issues involved in international commercial disputes where set-off has been used.

Updated and refreshed version of this classic text for a new generation of students.

This book examines the intersection between contemporary International Commercial Arbitration and Shari?

The first part of the book critically evaluates the evolution of the separate intra-EU child abduction regime and examines the extent to which the European Union complied with its standards of good legislative drafting during the negotiations on the Brussels II bis Regulation.

This book engages with different aspects of India's practice of international law.

This book analyses how damage resulting from offshore-related incidents is compensated in European waters, whilst providing models to improve such compensation.

Proposes a reconceptualization of consent which argues that consent should be viewed as a dynamic concept that is context-dependent, incremental, and variable.

Provides an unprecedented historical, theoretical and comparative analysis and appraisal of party autonomy in private international law.

The Developing World of Arbitration studies the recent emergence of Asia Pacific jurisdictions as regional or international arbitration centres, thanks to various reform efforts and initiatives.

This book sets out the way that, through enhanced private antitrust enforcement reform, private international law has a pivotal role in EU competition law disputes with an international element.

An expert analysis of the relevant law and jurisprudence in mass litigation, this edited work examines the diverse and complex transnational considerations and issues of collective redress.

The first empirical analysis of leniency programmes implemented in Asian countries to enforce the anti-cartel provisions of their competition law.

Increasing numbers of people have connections with one country, but live and work in another, frequently owning property or investments in several countries.

Written with the assistance of a team of lecturers at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, this book is the leading reference on Chinese private international law in English.

Carriage of Goods by Sea provides an extensive comparative analysis of the carriage of goods by sea, examining the principles, regulation, responsibilities, obligations, and immunities within this area of English law, and other common law jurisdictions, in a single volume.

This book examines the international conflict of laws.

This invaluable introduction to the study of the conflict of laws provides a survey and analysis of the rules of private international law as they apply in England.

This book provides a detailed discussion of the Hague Convention''s provisions with a focus on the text as viewed against its diplomatic background.

This three-volume Manual on International Maritime Law presents a systematic analysis of the history and contemporary development of international maritime law by leading contributors from across the world.

Transnational commercial law represents the outcome of work undertaken to harmonize national laws affecting domestic and cross-border transactions and is upheld by a diverse spectrum of instruments.

Today, a California resident can incorporate her shipping business in Delaware, register her ships in Panama, hire her employees from Hong Kong, place her earnings in an asset-protection trust formed in the Cayman Islands, and enter into a same-sex marriage in Massachusetts or Canada--all the while enjoying the California sunshine and potentially avoiding many facets of the state's laws.

International commercial arbitration and litigation are often seen as competing fora, fields of law, or markets.

In Brexit and the Future of Private International Law in English Courts, Mukarrum Ahmed discusses the impact of Brexit upon jurisdiction, foreign judgments, and the applicable law in civil and commercial matters.

From the very first negotiations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights half a century ago to the present day, socio-economic rights have often been regarded as less enforceable than civil and political rights.

This book is a comparative look at the law of commercial contracts as constructed by the US and UK legal systems.

An expert analysis of the relevant law and jurisprudence in mass litigation, this edited work examines the diverse and complex transnational considerations and issues of collective redress.

The book provides a critical analysis of electronic alternatives to documents used in the international sale of goods carried by sea, including invoices, bills of lading, certificates of insurance, as well as other documentation required under documentary credits, and payment processing arrangements.

This book focuses on international harmonisation and the law of secured transactions by distilling and analysing the unifying principles of various significant international conventions and instruments such as the UN Convention on the Assignment of Receivables, the Unidroit Convention on International Factoring, the EBRD Model Law on Secured Transactions, the Unidroit Convention on the International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions.

This book presents the findings of the first comprehensive study on the most recent and most unique and innovative method of monitoring international human rights law at the United Nations.

This handbook is a reference work providing a comprehensive, objective and comparative overview of Space Law.

Highlights specific features of various international commercial arbitration forms, thus enabling lawyers drafting arbitration clauses to make informed choices.

Statutes on the Conflict of Laws provides students with the principal, current EU and UK legislation encountered in the study of private international law in one clear and easy-to-use volume.

Comparative constitutional change has recently emerged as a distinct field in the study of constitutional law.

Waddams argues that principle and policy, rather than being opposed, have been closely interrelated, each giving shape to the other.

Freedom of establishment is one of the four fundamental freedoms of the European Union.

This is the long-awaited second edition of this widely-referenced work on the substantive law principles of investment treaty arbitration.

This is the first comprehensive study of corruption in international investment arbitration.

In recent years, China, the US, and the EU and its Member States have either promulgated new national laws and regulations or drastically revised existing ones to exert more rigorous government control over inward foreign direct investment (FDI).

Examines how, despite its past significance and influence, English contract law now faces functional and moral redundancy.

This book considers the issues involved in international commercial disputes where set-off has been used.

The book challenges the long-established views on the nature and scope of freezing injunctions in international commercial litigation and arbitration.

The forum (non) conveniens doctrine provides the basis for the discretionary exercise of jurisdiction by English courts in private international law disputes.

By their very nature, ships do not stay put.

This book offers comprehensive coverage and analysis of the relationship between the three instruments governing civil jurisdiction and judgments in Europe; the Brussels Regulation, the Lugano Convention, and the Hague Choice of Court Convention.

A detailed examination of the principle of vicarious liability in tort in both common and civil law legal systems.