Human Rights and Private International Law
Published on 23. June 2016
Book
Hardback
976 pages
978-0-19-966640-9 (ISBN)
Description
Examining the impact, both actual and potential, of human rights concerns on private international law as well as the oft overlooked topic of the impact of private international law on human rights, this work represents an invaluable resource for all those working or conducting research in these areas.
Human Rights and Private International Law is the first title to consider and analyse the numerous English private international law cases discussing human rights concerns arising in the commercial law context, alongside high profile cases dealing with torture (Jones v. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and same sex marriage (Wilkinson v Kitzinger).The right to a fair trial is central to the intersection between human rights and private international law, and is considered in
depth along with the right to freedom of expression; the right to respect for private and family life; the right to marry; the right to property; and the prohibition of discrimination on the ground of religion, sex, or nationality. Focussing on, though not confined to, the human rights set out in the ECHR, the work also
examines the rights laid down under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and other international human rights instruments.
Human Rights and Private International Law is the first title to consider and analyse the numerous English private international law cases discussing human rights concerns arising in the commercial law context, alongside high profile cases dealing with torture (Jones v. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and same sex marriage (Wilkinson v Kitzinger).The right to a fair trial is central to the intersection between human rights and private international law, and is considered in
depth along with the right to freedom of expression; the right to respect for private and family life; the right to marry; the right to property; and the prohibition of discrimination on the ground of religion, sex, or nationality. Focussing on, though not confined to, the human rights set out in the ECHR, the work also
examines the rights laid down under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and other international human rights instruments.
Reviews / Votes
To those who might regard human rights law and private international law as separate disciplines, we would recommend this book. Its aim, as the authors, James J Fawcett, Maire Ni Shuilleabhain and Sangeeta Shah explain, has been to produce the first comprehensive account of the relationship between these two pivotal areas of law, 'from an English law perspective.' The result is nothing if not innovative as the surprisingly close and important relationship betweenhuman rights law and private international law is carefully examined and analysed, extensively and in depth. * Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers *
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James J. Fawcett | Máire Ní Shúilleabháin | Sangeeta Shah
Human Rights and Private International Law
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08/2016
OUP eBook
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Persons
James Fawcett, Professor of International Commerical Law, University of Nottingham, Maire Ni Shuilleabhain, Lecturer, School of Law, University College Dublin, Sangeeta Shah, Associate Professor in Law, University of Nottingham
Content
1 Introduction; 2 Human rights, private international law, and their interaction; 3 The right to a fair trial; 4 The right to a fair trial and jurisdiction under the EU rules; 5 The right to a fair trial and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments under the EU rules; 6 The right to a fair trial and jurisdiction under national rules; 7 The right to a fair trial and enforcement and recognition of foreign judgments under the traditional English rules; 8 The right to a fair trial and private international law: Concluding remarks; 9 The prohibition of discrimination and private international law; 10 Freedom of expression and the right to respect for private life: International defamation and invasion of privacy; 11 The right to marry, the right to respect for family life, the prohibition on discrimination and international marriage; 12 Religious rights and recognition of marriage and extra-judicial divorce; 13 Right to respect for family life and the rights of the child: International Child Abduction; 14 Right to respect for private and family life and related rights: Parental status; 15 The right to property, foreign judgments, and cross-border property disputes; 16 Overall conclusions