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New York’s Appellate Division Holds that Chinese Judgment Should Not Be Denied Enforcement on Systemic Due Process Grounds

Conflict of Laws

Should courts in the United States refuse to recognize and enforcement Chinese court judgments on the ground that China does not provide impartial tribunals or procedures compatible with the requirements of due process of law? Last April, a New York trial court said yes in Shanghai Yongrun Investment Management Co. Wan , a U.S.

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Review of Afifah Kusumadara, Indonesian Private International Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021, 288 pp, hb $140

Conflict of Laws

Spanning 226 pages across six chapters, the book aims to be the leading English-language text on private international law in Indonesia. Indonesia, a civil law country, has legal principles influenced by Dutch traditional private international law, owing to its colonial history.

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Who’s Afraid of Punitive Damages? – Conference in Augsburg, Germany

Conflict of Laws

It evidently has not stopped claimants from seeking enforcement of punitive damage awards in other civil law legal systems. He argued that punitive damages seem to be one of the few legal institutions showing a sharp contrast between common law and civil law jurisdictions.

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‘Giustizia consensuale’: A New Law Journal on Consensual Justice in Its Many Nuances and Forms

Conflict of Laws

Having chosen instead (b) arbitration, the parties will normally make explicit the ‘seat’ (London, Milan, New York, etc) and the size of the arbitral tribunal (one, three, five, etc). In the last few decades, even civil law jurisdictions have witnessed an increase in the promotion of alternative dispute resolution.

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Decoding International Arbitration

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Remember, these are cases that could involve parties from common law and civil law countries. In fact, we include such language in the award because in the New York Convention, for example, the US has taken a reservation to that treaty that it will enforce the awards based on reciprocity.

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Symposium for Trevor Hartley at LSE on 27 October 2023

Conflict of Laws

The first panel will focus on global and comparative private international law. The second panel will examine contemporary English conflict of laws, through the lens of Trevor’s famous ICLQ article on the systematic dismantling of the common law of conflict of laws.

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Second edition of The Hague Academy of International Law’s Advanced Course in Hong Kong on “Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters: Judgments Convention”

Conflict of Laws

10), which according to Franzina was designed not primarily with civil law systems in mind, but rather for common law jurisdictions, who were assumed to have difficulties in asserting the public policy exception (Art. 7 (1) lit. While reminding the audience of the importance of an autonomous interpretation (Art.