Private international law and conflict of laws

An account of the role that legal obligation plays in creating and maintaining effective international law.

In recent decades, the rise in cross-border law violations has harmed numerous victims around the globe.

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

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

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.

This book describes and assesses an emerging threat to states' territorial control and sovereignty: the hostile control of companies that carry out privatized aspects of sovereign authority.

This book provides an introduction to, and demystification of, the private and public dimensions of international aviation law.

The second edition of this highly recommended work addresses the interaction between conflict of laws, dispute resolution, electronic commerce and consumer contracts.

Through further technological development and increased globalization, conducting busines abroad has become easier, especially for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME).

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

Investigates the relationship between international organizations and private subjects under the unexplored perspective of procurement by international organizations.

This edited volume explores the question of the lawfulness under international law of economic activities in occupied territories from the perspectives of international law, EU law, and business and human rights.

This comparative appraisal of competition law and policy draws on examples from both the developed and the developing worlds.

This comparative appraisal of competition law and policy draws on examples from both the developed and the developing worlds.

When the law of a foreign country is selected or pleaded by a claimant or defendant, a question arises as to whether the issue pertains to substance, in which case it may be resolved by foreign law, or procedure, in which case it will be governed by the law of forum.

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

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

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the law surrounding PPPs in the Middle East and North African region.

This book provides the European structure of liability for failed contract negotiations through a comparative lens, with wider lessons for an international context.

The discipline of offshore financial law has developed substantially since the first edition of this book was published.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the law surrounding PPPs in the Middle East and North African region.

This new book analyses the challenge of how money (including coins, notes, credit, and virtual currency) should be defined from both a legal and an economic perspective.

Examining the impact, both actual and potential, of human rights concerns on private international law as well as the oft overlooked topic of the impact of private international law on human rights, this work represents an invaluable resource for all those working or conducting research in these areas.

When the law of a foreign country is selected or pleaded by a claimant or defendant, a question arises as to whether the issue pertains to substance, in which case it may be resolved by foreign law, or procedure, in which case it will be governed by the law of forum.

The book explores the concept of complex victimhood through stories of women who were abducted by the Lord''s Resistance Army.

Explores the political context of the rapid changes in the international law on foreign investment made through investment arbitration.

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 Handbook is the first comprehensive account of comparative environmental law.

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

The book explores the concept of complex victimhood through stories of women who were abducted by the Lord''s Resistance Army.

This book provides an extensive analytical examination of the Cape Town Convention and its Protocols.

This book considers critics of international criminal law concerning normative concepts of legitimacy, sovereignty, responsibility, punishment, economics, politics, evidence, and fairness.

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

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.

Arbitration is the dispute resolution method of choice in international commerce, but it rests on a complex legal foundation.

No one would dispute that the duty to provide for those that you have a legal and moral obligation to support is very important.

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.

New essays by leading figures from the judiciary, practicing lawyers and academics illuminating the worlds of trusts and wealth management.

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

This book examines the subtle ways in which rhetorics of sacrifice have been re-appropriated into the workings of the global political economy in the 21st century.

This book focuses on the subject of choice of law as a whole and provides an analysis of its various rules, principles, doctrines and concepts.

This collection brings together a team of outstanding scholars from across the common law world to explore the treatment of misleading silence in private law doctrine and theory.

Offers expert comparative analysis of the child''s best interests within the context of Article 3 of the UNCRC.

This book assesses the state of international sales law and the provisions of the CISG.

This volume presents the first comprehensive examination of the legal issues surrounding international debt recovery on claims against Iraqi oil and gas.

This book is built upon the outcomes of the EUFam's Project, financially supported by the EU Civil Justice Programme and led by the University of Milan.

Principles of the Carriage of Goods by Sea offers students studying this topic as part of their LLM or LLB course an accessible, comprehensive overview of the subject from a leading expert in the field.

Builds on micro-level critiques of transitional justice to debate a more comprehensive alternative at the level of theory and practice.