Overview
The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded work has been fully updated to encompass the major changes and developments in the law, including the newly finalised Rome II Regulation. The book is invaluable for the practitioner as well as being the leading students' textbook in the field, giving comprehensive and accessible coverage of the basic principles of private international law, a popular law school option. It offers students, teachers and practitioners not only a rigorous academic examination of the subject, but also a practical and commercial guide to the complex subject of private international law.
Full Product Details
Author: James Fawcett (Professor of International Commercial Law, School of Law, University of Nottingham) ,
Janeen Carruthers (Reader in Conflict of Laws, School of Law, University of Glasgow)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Edition: 4th edition
Dimensions:
Width: 17.00cm
, Height: 6.00cm
, Length: 24.60cm
Weight: 1.964kg
ISBN: 9780199284382
ISBN 10: 0199284385
Pages: 1536
Publication Date: 28 August 2008
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
`The work is a treasure trove for the dilligent student, and given the level of detail and analysis which it contains, the paperback edition is very attractvely priced' Kirsty J Hood, Edinburgh Law Journal
The work is a treasure trove for the dilligent student, and given the level of detail and analysis which it contains, the paperback edition is very attractvely priced Kirsty J Hood, Edinburgh Law Journal
Author Information
James Fawcett read law at the University of Nottingham and qualified as a solicitor at a leading City of London firm. He became a lecturer at Bristol University in 1973, obtained a Ph.D. in 1980 and, after a year at the National University of Singapore, became a Professor at the University of Leicester in 1988. He became Professor of International Commercial Law at Nottingham in 1995. His major teaching and research interest is in private international law, especially the commercial aspects thereof. He is the co-author of one of the leading textbooks in the area, Cheshire and North's Private International Law (13 ed., 1999). He has been a Director of Studies and Professor at the Hague Academy of International Law. Janeen Carruthers joined the School of Law in 1999 as a Lecturer in Private Law, having previously worked as a Solicitor in private practice with Maclay, Murray & Spens, Solicitors. She graduated from the University of Glasgow LL.B. (Hons) (1994), Dip.L.P. (1995), and following a period of part-time study, Ph.D. (2002). Her doctoral research is in the field of International Private Law, under the title, Beyond the Ineluctable: An Examination of Choice of Law Rules in Property. In 2006, Dr Carruthers was appointed to a Readership in the Conflict of Laws, and her research interests now lie in all areas of International Private Law. Sir Peter North CBE QC was a Law Commissioner for England and Wales from 1976-1984 and was Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, from 1984-2005 and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1993-1997. He is also a fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Institute of International Law, a QC (Honoris Causa) and an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple.
