Commercial Issues in Private International Law

Michael Douglas is Senior Lecturer at UWA Law School, University of Western Australia. Vivienne Bath is Professor of Chinese and International Business Law at the University of Sydney Law School. Mary Keyes is Professor at Griffith Law School. Andrew Dickinson is Fellow of St Catherine's College and Professor of Law, University of Oxford.

1. Commercial Issues in Private International Law
Justice Steven Rares

PART I
JURISDICTION
2. In Absentia: The Evolution and Reform of Australian Rules of Adjudicatory Jurisdiction
Andrew Dickinson
3. The Exercise of Jurisdiction and the Role of Enforcement
Vivienne Bath
4. The Case Management Stay in Private International Law
Reid Mortensen

PART II
FOREIGN JUDGMENTS
5. The 2005 Hague Convention: A Panacea for Non-Exclusive and Asymmetric Jurisdiction Agreements Too?
Brooke Marshall
6. Reciprocal Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in China: The Proposal of a Registration System
Jie (Jeanne) Huang

PART III
CHOICE OF LAW
7. Paying Attention to Choice of Law in International Commercial Arbitration – or – Why the Conflict of Laws Always Matters
Benjamin Hayward
8. The Conflict of Laws as a Shared Language for the Cross-Border Application of Statutes
Maria Hook
9. Choice of Law in the Age of Statutes: A Defence of Statutory Interpretation after Valve
Michael Douglas

PART IV
THE DEVELOPING LEGAL LANDSCAPE
10. New and Alternative Approaches to Proof of Foreign Law: A Practitioners’ Perspective
Justin Hogan-Doran and Dominique Hogan-Doran
11. The Rise of Party Autonomy in Commercial Conflict of Laws
Yeo Tiong Min
12. Developing Australian Private International Law: The Hague Choice of Court Convention & The Hague Principles of Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts
Mary Keyes

PART V
CONCLUDING REMARKS
13. Conclusion
Justice Paul Le Gay Brereton, AM, RFD