Private international law and conflict of laws

This book provides an authoritative account of the evolution and application of private international law principles in India in civil commercial and family matters.

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

A theoretical analysis of the structure of expropriation in investment law, investigating the foundations for contemporary scholarship and practice.

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

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

This book proposes an approach that guarantees access to justice for victims of international institutional conduct without compromising institutional independence.

This updating supplement brings the Main Work The Rome II Regulation up to date and incorporates substantive developments since publication of the book in December 2008.

Choice of Law provides an in-depth sophisticated coverage of the choice-of-law part Conflicts Law (or Private International Law) in torts, products liability, contracts, forum-selection and arbitration clauses, insurance, statutes of limitation, domestic relations, property, marital property, and successions.

Addresses the US common law and its doctrinal contribution to transparency, arbitrator immunity and evidence gathering in international commercial arbitration.

This collection presents a detailed analysis of European concepts of unconscionability in financial transactions, against a backdrop of harmonisation initiatives.

Considers the lessons that French medical accident liability and redress law provides for possible reform in England and elsewhere.

To effect just outcomes the justice system requires that law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges be committed-above all-to doing justice.

This book analytically reviews the impact of the global anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) framework on the compliance trajectory of a number of jurisdictions to this framework.

The second edition of Global Sales and Contract Law continues to provide comparative analysis of domestic laws of sale and contract in over sixty countries, delivering a global view of national and international sales law.

Nearly twenty years after its original publication, The Idea of Private Law is widely recognized as a seminal contribution to legal philosophy, and one of the leading attempts to explain and justify the moral foundations of private law.

Puts forward a concept of shared obligations that enables scholars and practitioners to tackle questions raised by this phenomenon.

Business and Investment in Brazil provides a thorough analysis of Brazilian business law for investors and their legal advisers, focusing on topics relevant to business transactions and disputes that can arise in the aftermath of the signing or performance of deals.

There is something visceral about ownership.

Private law has long been the focus of efforts to explain wider developments of law in an era of globalisation.

This 2007 third edition examines the risks of project finance deals as a step-by-step handbook and reference for professionals.

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'.

This book undertakes a systematic analysis of the 2019 Hague Judgments Convention, the 2005 Hague Choice of Court Convention 2005, and the 2017 Commonwealth Model Law on recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments from a pragmatic perspective.

The only book to focus specifically on confidentiality and by extension, disclosure obligations, in offshore financial law, this new edition examines the issues surrounding confidentiality providing thorough analysis of the current legal position and discussing the extent to which it should be protected given the conflicting interests at stake.

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

By nearly every measure, Americans are less engaged in their communities and political activity than generations past.

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.

Private International Law Online is a dedicated analysis of the private international law framework in the European Union as it applies to online activities such as content publishing, selling and advertising goods through internet marketplaces, or offering services that are performed online.

The international order is constituted by a plurality of international regimes - institutionalized arrangements in different issue areas that possess their own norms and procedures.

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

Explores how constitutional orders engage with and are shaped by their exteriors.

Presents a worldwide survey of public and private enforcement of securities law for misrepresentation on financial markets and compensation of investors'' losses.

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.

The book provides a thorough analysis of how the private sector can play a role in the Responsibility to Protect.

An original analysis of the practical operation of the party autonomy principle in contractual choice of law in China.

This 2007 third edition examines the risks of project finance deals as a step-by-step handbook and reference for professionals.

Although the 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is one of the most successful international conventions to date, it remains the case that those involved in the international sale of goods must refer to a multitude of laws.

Globalization is an extraordinary phenomenon affecting virtually everything in our lives.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book explains the role of private law in governing markets.

Digital Technologies and the Law of Obligations critically examines the emergence of new digital technologies and the challenges they pose to the traditional law of obligations, and discusses the extent to which existing contract and tort law rules and doctrines are equipped to meet these new challenges.

Explains the legal implications of internationalisation, standardisation and diversification in modern derivatives markets, demonstrating the key role of national courts.

This book highlights the right to terminate a contract, yielding invaluable insights to enable policymakers and legal practitioners to facilitate international trade.

This book grew out of a major European Union (EU) funded project on the Hague Maintenance Convention of 2007 and on the EU Maintenance Regulation of 2009.

Although the 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is one of the most successful international conventions to date, it remains the case that those involved in the international sale of goods must refer to a multitude of laws.

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A re-conceptualization of the normative frame of reference for contemporary tort law beyond the nation-state.

This book re-imagines transitional justice as a movement, and explains why truth commissions are being promoted and created.

The second edition builds on the excellent reputation earned by the first as a comprehensive and practical work focussing on civil law claims and remedies.

International civil aviation is a significant polluter of the atmosphere.

This new edition has been extended to include chapters on Poland, Russia, Singapore, and US - Illinois, making this the most comprehensive analysis of succession laws available.