Private international law and conflict of laws

This book examines the convergences, divergences and reciprocal lessons that the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) share with one another in developing the principles of private international law.

Maritime autonomous vehicles (MAVs) have the potential to radically alter all uses of maritime space, with technology progressing faster than the law.

The decentralisation of competition law enforcement and the stimulation of private damages actions in the European Union go hand in hand with the increasingly international character of antitrust proceedings.

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:"e;This constitutes a work of impressive scholarship that will become a major reference point for future discourse on choice of court agreements.

Containing contributions from both academic experts and practitioners, and from economic and legal experts, this book explores the use of economics in international economic law.

The Brussels I Regulation has undergone a lengthy review process, resulting in Regulation (EU) 1215/2012 of 12 December 2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (recast).

Offers an analysis of cooperation between international organizations and private actors in creating transnational regulation.

Retaining its practical emphasis, this new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect important new developments.

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).

A comparison of the rules of internet jurisdiction, choice of law and dispute resolution in the EU, USA and China.

A collection of essays that examines the use and abuse of eminent domain across the world.

By their very nature, ships do not stay put.

Laws are imposed on facts.

This is the first book to analyse and draw together all of the property law and regulatory and contractual issues relevant to financial collateral transactions.

Contemporary debates about the changing nature of law engage theories of legal pluralism, political economy, social systems, international relations (or regime theory), global constitutionalism, and public international law.

This book examines the rules, principles, and doctrines in Nigerian law for resolving cases involving cross-border issues.

With employment contracts increasingly involving international elements, cases involving any international aspect require the application of rules of private international law to determine which court or tribunal can hear the case, and what law will be applied to determine the dispute.

Veiled Power conducts a thorough historical study of the relationship between international law and business corporations.

The doctrines of waiver, variation and estoppel are relied upon to justify or criticize a party's changed position as to its contractual obligations.

With newly uncovered personal papers, this volume offers in-depth analysis of Wesley Hohfeld''s pioneering contributions to legal theory.

This book provides an unprecedented analysis on the place of performance.

The second thematic volume in the series Studies in Private International Law Asia looks into direct jurisdiction, that is, the situations in which the courts of 15 key Asian states (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and India) are prepared to hear a case involving cross-border elements.

The application of private international law to electronic consumer contracts raises new, complex, and controversial questions.

An analysis of the relationship between private international law, examined from an international systemic perspective, and public international law.

The manner in which the governing law of companies is determined has attracted much attention from academics and practitioners alike ever since the European Court of Justice began receiving references for preliminary rulings regarding the compatibility of protective conflict of corporate law norms with the EC Treaty provisions concerning freedom of establishment.

The text, follows very closely the doctrinal development in the American jurisprudence of international commercial arbitration.

The doctrines of waiver, variation and estoppel are relied upon to justify or criticize a party's changed position as to its contractual obligations.

Sex Trafficking: A Private Law Response examines existing and potential causes of action against sex traffickers, clients and the state and argues for fair and effective private law remedies.

Codifying Choice of Law Around the World chronicles, documents, and celebrates the extraordinary, massive codification of Private International Law (PrIL), or Conflict of Laws that has taken place in the last 50 years, from 1962-2012.

Conflict of Laws provides a straight-forward and accessible introduction to English private international law.

This book discusses the international right to water and the liberalization of water services.

With a particular focus on intellectual property, this work explores some of the key methodological and institutional issues affecting the development of European private law.

By providing a private international law analysis of a field in which international conventions coexist with national law and regional law, this book offers different theoretical and methodological insights into the conflict of laws and the conflict of jurisdictions, aiming ultimately at the juridical continuity of legal relations across national borders.

Judgment recognition and enforcement (JRE) between the US states, between EU Member States, and between mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao, are all forms of 'interregional JRE'.

A critical overview of the Europeanisation of private law at a watershed moment, a point of punctuated equilibrium.

The Rome I Regulation applies to all EU Member States (except Denmark) in relation to 'contractual obligations in civil and commercial matters' in 'situations involving a conflict of laws' that arise out of contracts concluded from 17 December 2009.

This is the leading reference on Japanese private international law in English.

New Private Law Theory is pluralist, comparative, application-oriented, transnational and reflects critical approaches.

This book explores the requirement of publicity in international lawmaking through the lens of covert and quasi-covert uses of force.

International child abduction occurs when one parent wrongfully (ie in breach of the parental responsibility of the other parent) takes a child to a country other than that of the child's habitual residence, or wrongfully keeps a child in such country.

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.

The rise and spread of the Internet has accelerated the global flows of money,technology and information that are increasingly perceived as a challenge to thetraditional regulatory powers of nation states and the effectiveness of their constitutions.

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 book provides a much-needed analysis of this very important subject for international business lawyers,including discussion of the jurisdictional and choice of laws issues arising from cross-border contracts of insurance and reinsurance concluded by electronic means.

This book focuses on how public and private international law address civil liability for transboundary pollution.