Research Catalog

Title

Reform and development of private international law : essays in honour of Sir Peter North / edited by James Fawcett.

Publication

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Fawcett, J. J.
• North, P. M. (Peter Machin)

Description

xxxiii, 355 p. : port.; 24 cm.

Subject

Conflict of laws

Genre/Form

Festschriften.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The brussels convention becomes a regulation: implications for legal basis, external competence, and contract jurisdiction / Paul R Beaumont -- 2. Reform of private international law by judges: Canada as a case study -- 3. Forum selection and forum rejection in US courts: one rationale for a globval choice of court convention / Ronald A Brand -- 4. Comity in modern private international law / Lawrence Collins -- 5. The EU and a metamorphosis of private international law / Hans Ulrich Jessurun d'Oliverira -- 6. Special rules of private international law for special cases: what should we do about intellectual property? / James Fawcett -- 7. A culling of sacred cows-the impact of the EC insolvency regulation on English conflict of laws / Ian F Fletcher -- 8. The trust in private international law / Jonathan Harris -- 9. Matrimonial (Marital) property rights in conflict of laws: a reconsideration / Trevor C Hartley -- 10. On some writers on the conflict of laws of contracts / Ole Lando -- 11. The hague conference's judgments project / David McClean -- 12. Making English private international law / C G J Morse -- 13. Declining jurisdiction under the Brussels I regulation 2001 and the preliminary draft hague judgments convention: a comparison / Peter Nygh -- 14. National private international law and international instruments / Kurt Siehr.

ISBN

0199250081 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002074283

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Harvard Library