Entries by Martin George

Layton on West Tankers

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Alexander Layton QC is a barrister in practice at 20 Essex Street, London. He is a specialist in private international law and arbitration, and joint general editor of European Civil Practice. Although he acted for the UK government at the oral hearing in West Tankers, the views below are purely personal. Much of what I […]

Harris on West Tankers

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(Jonathan Harris is the Professor of International Commercial Law at the University of Birmingham, and a barrister at Brick Court Chambers. He is one of the authors of Dicey, Morris & Collins: The Conflict of Laws, and is co-editor of the Journal of Private International Law.) I have little to add about the judgment itself. […]

Dickinson on West Tankers: Another One Bites the Dust

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Andrew Dickinson is a Solicitor Advocate, Consultant to Clifford Chance LLP and Visiting Fellow in Private International Law at the British Institute of International & Comparative Law. His commentary on the Rome II Regulation is published by Oxford University Press. The views expressed below are the author’s personal, initial reaction to the judgment. Scaramanga: “A […]

Verona Conference on the Rome I Regulation

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The Faculty of Law at Verona are hosting a conference on the Rome I Regulation on 19-20 March 2009.  The conference flyer describes its scope thusly: Since it is believed that the proper functioning of the internal market creates a need, in order to improve the predictability of the outcome of litigation, certainty as to […]

Volume 4, Issue 3, Journal of Private International Law

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The latest issue of the Journal of Private International Law is out, and the contents are: Understanding the English Response to the Europeanisation of Private International Law by  Jonathan Harris Licences and Assignments of Intellectual Property Rights Under the Rome I Regulation by Paul LC Torremans Matrimonial Property on Divorce: All Change in Europe by CMV Clarkson […]