Transnational Tort Litigation Jurisdictional Principles [Hardcover]

The scope and application of the rules of civil jurisdiction is of immense practical importance in the conduct of transnational tort cases.

The incidence of transborder harms is on the increase. Transboundary pollution (for example, fall-out from Chernobyl, the determination of proper forum for litigation of the Bhopal dispute); the rise in complex international fraud (Guiness, Ferranti, BCCI); the increase in scope for product liability and intellectual property litigation in international commerce; and transnational personal injury cases arising from the increased flow of people across national borders.

These practical problems give rise to difficult legal issues, which existing domestic rules of jurisdiction may be ill-equipped to resolve, and in this timely collection of original articles a leading team of contributors assess existing legal provisions and examine the prospects for reform.

The Common Law Approach, Peter Nygh; The United States Approach, Friedrich Juenger; The Civil Law Approach, Walter and Dalsgaard; Fraud, Peter Nygh; Defamation, P.B. Carter; Product Liability, Peter Schlosser; Environmental Damage, Friedrich Juenger; Securities, Hans van Houtte; Competition, Catherine Kessedjian; Accidents, Kurt Siehr; Intellectual Property, Peter Trooboff; Restitution, Campbell McLachlan; Transnational Fraud, Peter Nygh.

Any lawyer or scholar engaged in private international law would enrich themselves by reading this book. The topics covered are quite diverse and the principles discussed in each of its chapters are applicable to almost any area of law. --Virginia Journal of International Law