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Commercial Conflicts of Laws - LAWS8041
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Faculty: Faculty of Law
 
 
School:  Faculty of Law
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9210, 5740 or 9230
 
 
Fee Band: 3 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

The course considers issues relating to conflicts of laws in an international context. Likely topics are common law rules of jurisdiction in international litigation; the Brussels regulation and its application in the EU; recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments at common law and under the Brussels regulation; classical doctrinal issues such as renvoi, characterisation etc; choice of law in contract – the Rome Convention and comparison with the Australian position; choice of law in tort- common law rules Rome II regulation and comparison with the Australian position.

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