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Private international law and the Internet / Dan Jerker B. Svantesson.
2007
D 731 SVA.P
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Title
Private international law and the Internet / Dan Jerker B. Svantesson.
Description
xxi, 440 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
ISBN
9041125167
9789041125163
9789041125163
Alternate Call Number
D 731 SVA.P
Summary
In this approach to what is perhaps the most crucial current issue in private international law, Dan Svantesson examines how the Internet affects and is affected by the four fundamental questions: When should a lawsuit be entertained by the courts? Which state's law should be applied? When should a court that can entertain a lawsuit decline to do so? And will a judgement rendered in one country be recognized in another? He identifies eleven characteristics of Internet communications that are relevant to these questions, and then proceeds with an investigation of whether and to what extent these characteristics (or their closest analogues) have already been dealt with in legal issues arising from other forms of communication."--BOOK JACKET.
Note
Bew. van proefschrift University of New South Wales, 2004.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes index and bibliographical references (pages 403-413) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Introduction; 2. Approaching the internet; 3. Approaching private international law; 4. Traditional common law: Australia, England and Hong Kong SAR; 5. The United States of America; 6. European civil law: Germany and Sweden; 7. The people's Republic of China; 8. International instruments; 9. A critique of current rules of private international law; 10. Geo-identification: technology to the rescue? 11. Proposed " defamation convention model"; 12. Proposed "contracts convention model"; 13. Concluding remarks.
Series
Information Law.
Published
Alphen aan den Rijn : Kluwer Law International, c2007.
Language
English
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Review
In this approach to what is perhaps the most crucial current issue in private international law, Dan Svantesson examines how the Internet affects and is affected by the four fundamental questions: When should a lawsuit be entertained by the courts? Which state's law should be applied? When should a court that can entertain a lawsuit decline to do so? And will a judgement rendered in one country be recognized in another? He identifies eleven characteristics of Internet communications that are relevant to these questions, and then proceeds with an investigation of whether and to what extent these characteristics (or their closest analogues) have already been dealt with in legal issues arising from other forms of communication."--BOOK JACKET.