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Torts in UK Foreign Relations offers a deeper understanding of the contested area of tortious liability for extraterritorial public acts arguing that English tort law should play a more prominent role in English courts' treatment of tortious claims for wrongs allegedly committed overseas.
List of contents
- PART I Introduction
- 1: Introduction
- PART II Jurisdiction of Courts and Acts of State
- 2: Crown Acts of State
- 3: Jurisdictional Immunities and Foreign Acts of State
- 4: Whose Act of State?
- PART III Choice of Law
- 5: Torts in Foreign Relations and Choice of Law
- 6: Law Governing the Tortious Liability of the UK Government
- 7: Law Governing the Tortious Liability of UK Government Officials
- 8: Law Governing Defences
- 9: Pleading and Proof of Foreign Law
- PART IV Foreign Judgements
- 10: Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgements
- PART V Conclusion
- 11: Summary and Way Forward
About the author
Dr Uglješa Grušić is an associate professor at the Faculty of Laws, University College London, where he teaches private international law, international arbitration, and tort. Before joining UCL, Grušić taught at the University of Nottingham, London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Belgrade. He is the author of The European Private International Law of Employment (2015), co-author of Cheshire, North & Fawcett: Private International Law (15th edn, 2017) and co-editor of Civil Remedies and Human Rights in Flux (2022). Ugljesa won the 2015 ASIL Private International Law Prize and the inaugural 2012 ICLQ Young Scholar Prize.
Summary
Torts in UK Foreign Relations offers a deeper understanding of the contested area of tortious liability for extraterritorial public acts arguing that English tort law should play a more prominent role in English courts' treatment of tortious claims for wrongs allegedly committed overseas.
