Private international law and conflict of laws

A fresh and insightful guide to post-financial crisis cross-border insolvency, this book interrogates the current regime and sets out a framework for improving its future.

Private International Law is often criticized for failing to curb private power in the transnational realm.

We have witnessed a digital revolution that affects the dynamics of existing traditional social, economic, political and legal systems.

In der Unternehmenspraxis stellt sich wiederholt die Frage, ob formbedürftige Rechtshandlungen deutscher Kapitalgesellschaften auch durch einen ausländischen Notar wirksam beurkundet werden können.

China is a country that is rich in antiquities, but it is also a victim of looting that occurred during the period from the First Opium War to the end of the Japanese Occupation (1840-1945) when innumerable cultural objects were lost overseas.

Do private and public international law coincide in their underlying objectives when it comes to their respective contribution to the realisation of global values?

The insolvency of multinational corporate groups creates a compelling challenge to the commercial world.

This book contains a series of essays on conflict laws, including jurisdiction of the courts, choice of law, renvoi, property, recognition of family status, and recognition of foreign corporations.

Die außergerichtliche Streitbeilegung unter Nutzung moderner Informations- und Telekommunikationstechniken wird unter dem Schlagwort der Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre diskutiert.

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

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

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

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.

A human rights analysis of international efforts to confiscate wealth in grand corruption cases that focuses on protections for property.

Arbitration and jurisdiction agreements are frequently used in transnational commercial contracts to reduce risk, gain efficacy and acquire certainty and predictability.

Uglješa Grušić examines the legal regulation of transnational employment relationships in the private international law of the European Union.

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.

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

Philosopher Kings?

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

Covering 17 Asian jurisdictions representing differing stages in the development of data protection regulatory systems this book offers an in-depth, cross-jurisdictional commentary on the developing world of Asian privacy and personal data protection, with a special focus on private international law issues.

1KBW on International Child Abduction is a guide to the practice and procedure in international child abduction proceedings, in particular applications under the 1980 Hague Convention.

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

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

What is equity?

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

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

What are the implications of project finance for human rights and sustainable development?

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.

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

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

This book provides a substantial overview of the discipline of private international law viewed from a global perspective.

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.

This volume provides an article-by-article commentary on the individual provisions of the European Succession Regulation.

This book offers a global solution for determining the law applicable to a claim to clawback an inter vivos gift from a third party within the context of a succession.

Using a comparative approach, this book analyses the history of China''s private property protection at the constitutional level since 1949.

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.

As people, business, and information cross borders, so too do legal disputes.

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.

Canadians like to think that their country is law-abiding and honours its international commitments.

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

The concept of the One Belt One Road initiative (OBOR) was raised by the President of the People's Republic of China in October 2013.

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.

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.

This is the fourth edition of this highly regarded work on the law of international commercial litigation as practised in the English courts.

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

This book explores the theory and practice of judicial jurisdiction within the field of private international law.

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

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.

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