Conflict Of Laws category: 101 books
Claims against Iraqi Oil and Gas
Legal Considerations and Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
This volume presents the first comprehensive examination of the legal issues surrounding international debt recovery on claims against Iraqi oil and gas. In addition to presenting a snapshot view of Iraq's outstanding debt obligations and an analysis of the significance of the theory of odious debt...
by Adrian Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This book offers a restatement of European and English Private International Law as it applies in the English courts. The author has set out to create a contemporary approach to private international law which is distinguished from the traditional approach of describing private international law through...
by Dean Symeon C. Symeonides
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
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...
Disobedience
Concept and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Disobedience has been practiced and considered since time immemorial. The aim of this edited collection is to explore the concept and practice of disobedience through the prism of contemporary ideas and events. Past writings on disobedience represented it as a largely political practice that revealed...
by James J. Fawcett, Máire Ní Shúilleabháin, Sangeeta Shah
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
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....
International Criminal Tribunals
A Normative Defense
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In the last two decades there has been a meteoric rise of international criminal tribunals and courts, and also a strengthening chorus of critics against them. Today it is hard to find strong defenders of international criminal tribunals and courts. This book attempts such a defense against an array...
by Richard Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Competing Sovereignties provides a critique of the concept of sovereignty in modernity in light of claims to determine the content of law at the international, national and local levels. In an argument that is illustrated through an analysis of debates over the control of intellectual property law...
Collective Actions
Enhancing Access to Justice and Reconciling Multilayer Interests?
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
This volume of essays draws together research on different types of collective actions: group actions, representative actions, test case procedures, derivative actions and class actions. The main focus is on how these actions can enhance access to justice and on how to balance the interests of private...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This substantial and original book examines how the EU Private International Law (PIL) framework is functioning and considers its impact on the administration of justice in cross-border cases within the EU. It grew out of a major project (ie EUPILLAR: European Union Private International Law: Legal...
The Europeanization of Intellectual Property Law
Towards a European Legal Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
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. Leading experts consider seven key topics, furthering understanding of the impact of Europeanization on the substance and...
by Curtis A. Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
International Law in the U.S. Legal System provides a wide-ranging overview of how international law intersects with the domestic legal system within the United States, and points out various unresolved issues and areas of controversy. Curtis Bradley covers all of the principal forms of international...
Commercial Issues in Private International Law
A Common Law Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2019
As people, business, and information cross borders, so too do legal disputes. Globalisation means that courts need to apply principles of private international law with increasing frequency. Thus, as the Law Society of New South Wales recognised in its 2017 report The Future of Law and Innovation...
Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments in Europe
The Brussels I Regulation, the Lugano Convention, and the Hague Choice of Court Convention
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
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. Providing a practical explanation of how the instruments...
The Transformation of European Private Law
Harmonisation, Consolidation, Codification or Chaos?
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This book emanates from a duo-colloquium which explored the Europeanisation of private law in the context of efforts to consolidate the consumer acquis, the Draft Common Frame of Reference, the appointment of an Expert Group on a Common Frame of Reference in the area of European contract law, the...