Full Description
Codifying Choice of Law Around the World chronicles, documents, and celebrates the extraordinary, massive country-by-country codification of Private International Law (PrIL) or Conflict of Laws that has taken place in the last 50 years from 1962-2012. During this period, the world has witnessed the adoption of nearly 200 PrIL codifications, EU Regulations, and international conventions---more than in all preceding years since the inception of PrIL. This book provides a horizontal comparison and discussion of these codifications and conventions, firstly by comparing the way they resolve tort and contract conflicts, and then by comparing the answers of these codifications to the fundamental philosophical and methodological dilemmas of PrIL. In the process, this book re-examines and dispels certain widely held assumptions about choice of law, and the art and science of codification in general.
Written by Symeon C. Symeonides, a renowned PrIL and comparative law expert with extensive first-hand experience in drafting codifications and advising other drafters, Codifying Choice of Law Around the World will serve as an indispensable point of reference for any serious study or discussion of PrIL and comparative law.
Contents
Foreword ; Preface ; Summary of Contents ; Detailed Table of Contents ; Abbreviations ; List of Choice-of-Law Codifications ; List of EU Regulations ; List of Conventions ; List of Charts ; List of Figures ; List of Maps ; List of Tables ; Chapter 1. Introduction ; Chapter 2. Law Governing Tort Conflicts ; Chapter 3. Party Autonomy in Contract Conflicts ; Chapter 4. Codification and Flexibility ; Chapter 5. Broad or Narrow Choice of Law: Issue-by-Issue Choice and Depecage ; Chapter 6. Codification and Result Selectivism ; Chapter 7. The Publicization of PrIL: State Interests, Unilateralism, and International Uniformity ; Chapter 8. Conclusions ; Appendix. Codifications, Regulations, and Conventions: Alphabetical List and Bibliography ; Index
