The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded work has been fully updated to encompass the major changes and developments in the law, including the newly finalised Rome II Regulation. The book is invaluable for the practitioner as well as being the leading students' textbook in the field, giving comprehensive and accessible coverage of the basic principles of private international law, a popular law school option. It offers students, teachers and practitioners not only a rigorous academic examination of the subject, but also a practical and commercial guide to the complex subject of private international law.

PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Definition, nature and scope of private international law 2. Historical development and current theories PART II: PRELIMINARY TOPICS 3. Classification 4. The incidental question 5. Renvoi 6. Substance and procedure 7. The proof of foreign law 8. Exclusion of foreign law 9. Domicil, nationality and residence PART III: JURISDICTION, FOREIGN JUDGMENTS AND AWARDS 10. Jurisdiction of the English courts - an introduction 11. Jurisdiction under the Brussels and Lugano Conventions 12. The competence of the English courts under the traditional rules 13. Stays of English proceedings and restraining foreign proceedings 14. Limitations on jurisdiction 15. Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments: the traditional rules 16. Recognition and enforcement of judgments under the Brussels and Lugano Conventions 17. Foreign arbitral awards PART IV: THE LAW OF OBLIGATIONS 18. Contracts 19. Non-contractual obligations PART V: FAMILY LAW 20. Marriage 21. Matrimonal causes 22. Declarations 23. Financial relief 24. Children 25. Legitimacy, legitimation and adoption 26. Mental disorder PART VI: THE LAW OF PROPERTY 27. The distinction between movables and immovables 28. Immovables 29. The transfer of tangible movables 30. The assignment of intangible movables 31. Administration of estates 32. Succession 33. Matrimonial property 34. Trusts Index

James Fawcett , Professor of International Commercial Law, School of Law, University of Nottingham, Janeen Carruthers , Reader in Conflict of Laws, School of Law, University of Glasgow

`This is an invaluable text for the practitioner faced with a private international law issue. It is clearly structured and the coverage is sufficently in depth to provide real answers to the type of questions which arise in practice.' Kirsty J Hood, Edinburgh Law Review