Economic Sanctions in EU Private International Law

Tamás Szabados is Associate Professor at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

1. Introduction
I. Economic Sanctions in Private International Law
II. The Aim of this Book
III. Methodology and the Scope of the Work
IV. The Object of the Analysis: Economic Sanctions
V. Foreign Policy and Private International Law
VI. Adjudicative Rhetoric and Foreign Policy Considerations
2. The Legal Framework for Imposing Economic Sanctions
I. The UN Sanctions Regime
II. Economic Sanctions in Bilateral and Multilateral Treaties
III. Economic Sanctions in EU Law
3. Coherence and Legal Certainty in EU Law
I. Coherence in the External Relations Law of the EU
II. Legal Certainty and EU Law
4. Economic Sanctions in Private International Law
I. Economic Sanctions: State Intervention in Private Law Relationships
II. Economic Sanctions as Overriding Mandatory Provisions
III. The Treatment of Foreign Public Law in Private Law Litigation
IV. Conclusion
5. Economic Sanctions as Overriding Mandatory Provisions in EU Private International Law
I. Economic Sanctions Imposed by the Law of the Forum State
II. Economic Sanctions of the Lex Causae
III. Economic Sanctions in the Law of a Third State Other than the Lex Causae
IV. Conclusion
6. The Judicial Practice of the Member States
I. France
II. Germany
III. England and Wales
IV. Assessment of the Judicial Practice of the Member States
V. The Outcome: A Changeable European Judicial Foreign Policy
7. Blocking Statutes
I. Blocking Statutes and Private International Law
II. A Conflict of Overriding Mandatory Provisions
8. ‘Deactivation’ of Economic Sanctions?
I. EU Economic Sanctions and Choice-of-Court Agreements
II. EU Economic Sanctions and Arbitration Agreements
9. Possible Solutions and Conclusions
I. Public Ordering of Contractual Relations Affected by Economic Sanctions
II. Private Ordering of Contractual Relations Affected by Economic Sanctions
III. The Role of Private International Law
IV. Conclusions