Acts of state and the frontiers of private (international) law

Journal article

Abstract:: A growing number of cases before the English courts implicate governmental or sovereign acts with a foreign connection. Cases involving “acts of state” have in the past been bedeviled by legal uncertainty, in terms both of the rationalisation of the common law’s approach to them, and the relationship of the rules and principles deployed to the private international law rules ordinarily applied in cases with a cross-border aspect. Three recent decisions of the Supreme Court offer some valuable...
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Institution:

University of Oxford

Division:

SSD

Department:

Law

Sub department:

Law Faculty

Oxford college:

St Catherine's College

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Author

Keywords:: sovereign acts

separation of powers

fundamental rights

Rome I Regulation

governmental acts

Rome II Regulation

act of state

civil and commercial matters

private law

constitutional law

Brussels I Regulation
Pubs id:: pubs:733121
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Local pid:: pubs:733121
Source identifiers:: 733121
Deposit date:: 2017-10-06

Copyright holder:: Dickinson, A
Notes:: © 2018 Andrew Dickinson. All Rights Reserved. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Taylor and Francis at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17441048.2018.1443776

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