Declining Jurisdiction in Private International Law (Oxford Private International Law Series)

Issues Concerning The Circumstances In Which A Court Having Jurisdiction Will Nevertheless Decline To Exercise It Are Of Great And Growing Importance. This Book Contains Eighteen National Reports And A General Report On The Subject. The Original National Reports Were Written For The Xivth Congress Of The International Academy Of Comparative Law Held In Athens In 1994. The Very Full General Report Is Based Upon The National Reports And Provides An Informed And Illuminating Overview Of This Area Of Private International Law. It Will Be Of Interest To All Practitioners And Scholars Working In The Field. General Report / J.j. Fawcett -- Argentina / Maureen Williams -- Australia / Judd Epstein -- Belgium / Marc Fallon -- Canada (common Law Jurisdictions) / Joost Blom -- Canada (quebec) / Gerald Goldstein -- Finland / Hannu Tapani Klami -- France / Hélène Gaudemet-tallon -- Germany / Haimo Schack -- Great Britain / Paul Beaumont -- Greece / Panagiotis Kargados And Elina Moustaira -- Israel / Stephen Goldstein -- Italy / Nicolo Trocker -- Japan / Masato Dogauchi -- The Netherlands / Mirjam Freudenthal And Frans Van Der Velden -- New Zealand / Laurette Barnard -- Sweden / Michael Bogdan -- Switzerland / Kurt Siehr -- United States Of America / Louis F. Del Duca And George A. Zaphiriou. J.j. Fawcett. Includes Index.