Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION
1: Definition, nature and scope of private international law
2: Historical development and current theories
PART II: PRELIMINARY TOPICS
3: Classification
4: The incidental question
5: Renvoi
6: Substance and procedure
7: The proof of foreign law
8: Exclusion of foreign law
9: Domicil, nationality and residence
PART III: JURISDICTION, FOREIGN JUDGMENTS AND AWARDS
10: Jurisdiction of the English courts - an introduction
11: Jurisdiction under the Brussels and Lugano Conventions
12: The competence of the English courts under the traditional rules
13: Stays of English proceedings and restraining foreign proceedings
14: Limitations on jurisdiction
15: Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments: the traditional rules
16: Recognition and enforcement of judgments under the Brussels and Lugano Conventions
17: Foreign arbitral awards
PART IV: THE LAW OF OBLIGATIONS
18: Contracts
19: Non-contractual obligations
PART V: FAMILY LAW
20: Marriage
21: Matrimonal causes
22: Declarations
23: Financial relief
24: Children
25: Legitimacy, legitimation and adoption
26: Mental disorder
PART VI: THE LAW OF PROPERTY
27: The distinction between movables and immovables
28: Immovables
29: The transfer of tangible movables
30: The assignment of intangible movables
31: Administration of estates
32: Succession
33: Matrimonial property
34: Trusts
Index

About the Author

James Fawcett read law at the University of Nottingham and qualified as a solicitor at a leading City of London firm. He became a lecturer at Bristol University in 1973, obtained a Ph.D. in 1980 and, after a year at the National University of Singapore, became a Professor at the University of Leicester in 1988. He became Professor of International Commercial Law at Nottingham in 1995. His major teaching and research interest is in private international law,
especially the commercial aspects thereof. He is the co-author of one of the leading textbooks in the area, Cheshire and North's Private International Law (13 ed., 1999). He has been a Director of Studies and
Professor at the Hague Academy of International Law.
Janeen Carruthers joined the School of Law in 1999 as a Lecturer in Private Law, having previously worked as a Solicitor in private practice with Maclay, Murray & Spens, Solicitors. She graduated from the University of Glasgow LL.B. (Hons) (1994), Dip.L.P. (1995), and following a period of part-time study, Ph.D. (2002). Her doctoral research is in the field of International Private Law, under the title, Beyond the Ineluctable: An Examination of Choice of Law Rules in Property.
In 2006, Dr Carruthers was appointed to a Readership in the Conflict of Laws, and her research interests now lie in all areas of International Private Law.
Sir Peter North CBE QC was a Law Commissioner for England and Wales from 1976-1984 and was Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, from 1984-2005 and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1993-1997. He is also a fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Institute of International Law, a QC (Honoris Causa) and an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple.

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