Global Private International Law

Edited by Horatia Muir Watt, Professor of Law, SciencesPo Law School, Paris, France, Lucia Bíziková, Trainee in an international law firm, London, UK, Agatha Brandão de Oliveira, Guest Lecturer, Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES), Brazil and member of the Brazilian Bar and Diego P. Fernández Arroyo, Professor of Law, Director of the LLM in Transnational & Dispute Settlement, SciencesPo Law School, Paris, France

Contents:

Introduction

Part I Jurisdiction: Judging without Frontiers?
1. Post-war yearning for deparochialisation and the siren of free trade: The Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Co.
Jacco Bomhoff, Agatha Brandão de Oliveira and Lucia Bíziková

2. Judicial discretion (From Bhopal to Brexit): Owusu v. Jackson
Christelle Chalas and Richard Fentiman

3. Parallel proceedings: Texaco/Chevron lawsuits (re Ecuador)
Diego P. Fernández Arroyo qnd Laura Carballo Piñeiro

4. Free-wheeling judgments/awards: Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc.
George A. Bermann and Giuditta Cordero-Moss

5. By-passing sovereignty: Trafigura lawsuits (re Ivory Coast)
Sara Dezalay and Simon Archer

Part II The Rise of Informality: Emerging Non-legal Normativities
6. Indigenous norms and judicial anthropology
Song Mao, Alex Mills, Hisashi Harata and Oona Le Meur

7. Non-state authority: FIFA
Franck Latty

8. Informal Codes: Nike v Kasky
Ralf Michaels and Ludovic Hennebel

9. Arbitration and religion: Jivraj v Hashwani
François-Xavier Licari, Sandrine Brachotte and Nathalie Najjar

Part III Changing Structures: New Foundations of the Private Global Economy
10. Emerging global giants: the legal infrastructure and structural causes of economic monopoly: Samsung
Darren Rosenblum, Calixto Salomão Filho and Vitor Henrique Pinto Ido

11. Global supply chains: Doe v. Nestle
Tomaso Ferrando and Samuel Fulli-Lemaire

12. Global market for sovereign debt: Argentina v. NML Capital, Ltd.
Jerôme Sgard and Mark Weidemaier

13. Autotomizing financial markets: Lehman Brothers v. BNY Corporate Trustee
Horatia Muir Watt

Part IV Modes of Reasoning: Doing Law beyond the State
14. Mysteries of extraterritoriality: RJR Nabisco, Inc. v European Community
Hannah Buxbaum and Jean d’Aspremont

15. Beyond the State: How far can Rights Reach?: Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co
Patrick Kinsch, Chris Thomale and Fabien Marchadier

16. Interpretation at cross-purposes: Dallah v. Pakistan
Hayk Kupelyants and Sylvain Bollée 

17. Economic transplants : Lafonta v. Autorité des marchés financiers
Katja Langenbucher and Toni Marzal

18. Mestizo International Law: Petrobras saga
Filipe Antunes Madeira da Silva, Fabio Costa Morosini and Michelle Sanchez Badin

19. Legal challenges of data dominance: Yahoo! v. LICRA and Microssoft - Ireland Cases
Paul Schiff Berman and Jennifer Daskal

Part V Global market: Unfamiliar foci of concern
20. Global contract governance: Selden v. Airbnb
David Restrepo-Amariles and Gregory Lewkowicz

21. Free movement of corporations: Centros Ltd. v. Erhvervs-og Selskabsstyrelsen
Jeremy Heymann and Régis Bismuth

22. Financial markets: Banco Santander v Transport Companies
Catalina Avasilencei and Gilles Cuniberti

23. Global labour market: Laval
Uglješa Grušić and Etienne Pataut

Part VI Personhood: Changing identities
24. Surrogacy issues: Mennesson v. France
Kellen Trilha and Dagmar Coester-Waltjen

25. Blind spots (persons and family): Blood
Elsa Supiot and Michael Wells-Greco

26. Cultural identities: Wagner v. Luxembourg
Hans Van Loon and David Sindres

27. Privatisation of international migration flows: Manus Island class action
Sabine Corneloup and Jinske Verhellen

Index