EU-PI: European Union Private International Law in Contract and Tort

Experienced practitioners in Europe realise the increasing commercial significance of the discipline known as Private International Law (Conflict of Laws).

As indicated by its title, the focus of this book is on the Private International Law rules applied by courts and arbitral tribunals in the European Union, but by including numerous concrete examples, we have tried to emphasise the interdisciplinary nature of the subject and thus the many relevant ‘connections’ between private international law and substantive commercial law, especially as regards contractual and delictual matters (e.g.) in cases concerning contracts for the international sale of goods, cross-border claims relating to product liability, etc.

This (first) edition is based on the previous limited publication of a special student edition, which was sold only to our students at the University of Copenhagen and not marketed or sold elsewhere. We are grateful to those students who took European and International Commercial Law in the fall of 2008 and who, by their comments, helped us improve the book.