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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Commercial Issues in Private International Law: A Common Law Perspective 2019 by Edited by Michael Douglas Edited by Vivienne Bath Edited by Mary Keyes Edited by Professor Andrew Dickinson
As people business and information cross borders so too do legal disputes. Globalisation means that courts need to apply principles of private international law with increasing frequency. Thus as the Law Society of New South Wales recognised in its 2017 report The Future of Law and Innovation in the Profession knowledge of private international law is increasingly important to legal practice. In particular it is essential to the modern practice of commercial law. This book considers key issues at the intersection of commercial law and private international law. The authors include judges academics and practising lawyers from Australia New Zealand Singapore and the United Kingdom. They bring a common law perspective to contemporary problems concerning the key issues in private international law: jurisdiction choice of law and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. The book also addresses issues of evidence and procedure in cross-border litigation and the impact of recent developments at the Hague Conference on Private International Law including the Convention on Choice of Court Agreements on common law principles of private international law.