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Symeon C. Symeonides (Williamette University, College of Law) has just posted "The Quest for the Optimum in Resolving Product-Liability Conflicts" on SSRN. Here's the abstract: This essay reports the findings of a comprehensive study of product-liability conflicts cases decided by American courts from 1990 to 2004. One of the findings is that choice-of-law methodology plays a […]
We have now implemented another way of finding the material you need on CONFLICT OF LAWS .NET quickly and efficiently. There are readers of this site located on every continent, and in every major jurisdiction; as a result, it makes sense for the news items to be searchable by jurisdiction, as well as by date […]
There are a few case comments and articles on private international law in various practitioner updates this month in the UK. These include: 1. "Court authority over internet sites based abroad"
Horatia Muir-Watt (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Fabrizio Cafaggi (European University Institute – Department of Law) have posted an interesting article on SSRN, entitled "The Making of European Private Law: Regulation and Governance Design". Here's the abstract: The current debate on the desirability and modes of formation of EPL (“EPL”) is engaging a wide number of […]
There is an article in the new issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (October 2006; Vol. 55, No. 4) by Reid Mortenson (TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland) on "Homing Devices in Choice of Tort Law: Australian, British and Canadian Approaches". The abstract reads: Since 1994, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia […]
Diana Wallis MEP and the Committee on Legal Affairs have
Symeon C. Symeonides (Williamette University, College of Law, USA) has just posted an article on SSRN entitled, "Party Autonomy and Private-Law Making in Private Intrernational Law: The Lex Mercatoria that Isn't". Here's the abstract: This essay discusses “non-state norms” from the perspective of American conflicts law. Commonly referred to as the “new lex mercatoria,” these […]
On 16th November, MEPs voted overwhelmingly (450 to 51) in favour of a
There is a very unusual article in the latest issue of the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics by Bernard Dickens and Rebecca Cook (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto) on “Legal and Ethical Issues in Telemedicine and Robotics“. The abstract reads: Modern medical concerns with telemedicine and robotics practiced across national or other jurisdictional […]
It seems that the European Commission’s