Clarkson & Hill's Conflict of Laws provides a detailed account of the topics taught on private international law courses, reflecting the profound changes that the subject has undergone in recent years. Focusing on key principles in an engaging and approachable style, this text is key reading for private international law students.

Introduction, nature of the subject, the conflicts process. Foreign judments. Contractual obligations.

The conflict of laws has undergone fundamental changes in recent decades. Much of the subject is now dominated by domestic legislation and international conventions and, from a practical point of view, the core is now to be found in the areas of jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.

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In conflicts around the world, children are being killed, raped, abducted and recruited to fight at a shocking scale. In light of this continuing, if not worsening, general failure to protect children in conflict, it is questionable whether existing international law norms and institutions provide sufficient protection and accountability. Consideration needs to be given to whether international law can do more – practically and effectively – when moral lines are crossed. That is the purpose behind this book. It reviews the position of children in conflict by reference to the 'six grave violations' as identified by the UN Security Council. It analyses the protection offered by international humanitarian law, international criminal law and international human rights law, and also assesses the related adjudicative accountability mechanisms. The analysis concludes with a number of recommendations and proposals for reform, with a view to enhancing accountability, deterring future violations and ending the war on children. The book has been written by a team of lawyers, headed by Shaheed Fatima QC, and has drawn on the input of an expert advisory panel comprising leading academics, policy-makers and activists. It has been written as part of the Inquiry on Protecting Children in Conflict. The Inquiry has been sponsored by Save the Children and Theirworld and chaired by former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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This text provides a comprehensive analysis of the conflict of laws as applicable in English law. It seeks to introduce the subject to students by examining preliminary topics, such as when the rules come into play, the need for application, classification and connecting factors. It includes coverage of the rules on jurisdiction, choice of law in relation to contract, tort, property and damages; and full commentary on the law of domicile, family law and recognition and enforcement of judgments. English rules on conflict laws have undergone a number of important changes since the first edition and are reflected here. Changes include an extra chapter on foreign currency as well as an extended section in the chapter on choice of law in tort, in order to incorporate the changes brought about by Parts I and III of the Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995.

This title was first published in 2001. After languishing for decades in the domains of rigid doctrinalism and confusing theory, the conflict of laws is increasingly being recognized as an important area of law to a global community. To demonstrate its importance, Michael Whincop and Mary Keyes transcend the divide between the English pragmatic tradition and the circularity of American policy-based theory. They argue that the law governing multistage conflicts can minimize the social costs of litigation, increase the extent of co-ordination, facilitate private ordering and limit regulatory monopolies and cross-border spillovers. Pragmatic in outlook and economic in methodology, they pursue these themes across a broad range of doctrinal issues and offer valuable links to parallel analyses in domestic contexts.

The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded work has been fully updated to encompass the major changes and developments in the law, including coverage of the Recast Brussels I Regulation which came into force in 2015. The book is invaluable for the practitioner as well as being one of the leading students' textbooks in the field, giving comprehensive and accessible coverage of the basic principles of private international law. It offers students, teachers and practitioners not only a rigorous academic examination of the subject, but also a practical guide to the complex subject of private international law. Written by an expert team of academics, there is extensive coverage of commercial topics such as the jurisdiction of various courts and their limitations, stays of proceedings and restraining foreign proceedings, the recognition and enforcement of judgments, the law of obligations with respect to contractual and non-contractual obligations. There are also sections on the various aspects of family law in private international law, and the law of property, including the transfer of property, administration of estates, succession and trusts.

This essay was honoured with the first prize in the University of Cambridge for the year 1785 and was influential for Clarkson’s further career. Thomas Clarkson was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He was not only instrmuental in achieving the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which ended British trade in slaves, but also campaigned for the abolition of slavery worldwide.