Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS vi
3. Foreword viii
4. Abbreviations x
5. Doctrine
6. The Lex Situs in the Law of Movables: A Swiss Cheese 1
7. Distance Torts: the Mines de Potasse Decision Forty Years on 19
8. Foreign Same-Sex Marriages Before Commonwealth African Courts 39
9. Escape Clauses and Legal Certainty in Private International Law 61
10. Protected Parties in European and American Conflict of Laws: A Comparative Analysis of Individual Employment Contracts 83
11. Recent Developments in the United States
12. Jurisdiction in the Fourth Restatement of Foreign Relations Law 143
13. Recent Developments in U.S. Law on Foreign Sovereign Immunity 171
14. RJR Nabisco v. European Community and the Reach of U.S. Law 195
15. Comity: the American Development of a Transnational Concept 211
16. The Speech Act and the Enforcement of Foreign Libel Judgments in the United States 245
17. Environmental Cross-Border Torts
18. Environmental Damages Caused by Transnational Groups: Access to Justice 259
19. Cross-Border Environmental Damage in Conflict of Laws 289
20. National Reports
21. Recognition or Non-Recognition of Foreign Civil Marriages in Israel 321
22. An Overview of Vietnamese Private International Law 341
23. Matters of Succession under Turkish Private International Law 371
24. International Lis Pendens as a Contemporary Problem of Turkish International Civil Procedure 393
25. The Mauritian Supreme Court Reliance on French and British Laws to Resolve Private International Law Disputes 423
26. Court Decisions
27. The EU Forum Non Conveniens Rule in Child Care Proceedings Cases Involving Public Bodies 431
28. Surrogacy Abroad, Recognition (or Non-Recognition?) in Switzerland: A Painful Dilemma 441
29. Forum
30. The Law Applicable to Intermediated Securities; Beyond PRIMA and The Hague Securities Convention 467
31. Third Party and Contract in the Conflict of Laws 511
32. The Role of Independent Administrative Authorities in Global Governance 543
33. The CMR 1956 Convention: Some Specific Issues from a Private International Law Perspective 569
34. Index 591