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Provides an unprecedented historical, theoretical and comparative analysis and appraisal of party autonomy in private international law. These issues are of great practical importance to any lawyer dealing with cross-border legal relationships, and great theoretical importance to a wide range of scholars interested in law and globalisation.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Historical and theoretical foundations of party autonomy; 3. Choice of court agreements: effects and effectiveness; 4. Choice of court agreements and non-contractual claims; 5. Limits on party autonomy in choice of court; 6. Arbitration agreements; 7. Choice of law in contract; 8. Choice of law in non-contractual relations; 9. Limits on party autonomy in choice of law; 10. Choice of non-state law; 11. Conclusions.
About the author
Alex Mills is Professor of Public and Private International Law at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He is the author of The Confluence of Public and Private International Law (Cambridge, 2009) and was awarded the American Society of International Law Private International Law Prize in 2010. He has directed studies in private international law at the Hague Academy of International Law, and he is a member of the Academic Research Panel of Blackstone Chambers and the Editorial Board of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly.
Summary
Provides an unprecedented historical, theoretical and comparative analysis and appraisal of party autonomy in private international law. These issues are of great practical importance to any lawyer dealing with cross-border legal relationships, and great theoretical importance to a wide range of scholars interested in law and globalisation.
