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Lis pendens in international litigation /

McLachlan, Campbell.

Lis pendens in international litigation / Campbell McLachlan. - Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff, 2009. - 485 p. ; 18 cm. - Pocketbooks of the Hague Academy of International Law . - Pocketbooks of the Hague Academy of International Law. .

"Full text of the lecture published in August 2009 in the Recueil des cours, Vol. 338 (2008)"--t.p.verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 468-480)

About this Item: Brill, Netherlands, 2009. Paperback. Condition: New. Language: English. Brand new Book. What legal principles apply when courts in different jurisdictions are simultaneously seised with the same dispute ? This question - of international lis pendens - has long been controversial. But it has taken on new and urgent importance in our age. Globalization has driven an unprecedented rise in forum shopping between national courts and a proliferation of new international tribunals. Problems of litispendence have spawned some of the most dramatic litigation of modern times - from anti-suit injunction battles in commercial disputes, to the appeals of prisoners on death row to international human rights tribunals. The way we respond to this challenge has profound theoretical implications for the interaction of legal systems in today's pluralistic world. In this wide-ranging survey, McLachlan analyses the problems of parallel litigation - in private and public international law and international arbitration. He argues that we need to develop a more sophisticated set of rules of conflict of litigation, guided by a cosmopolitan conception of the rule of law.

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Lis pendens.
Conflict of laws--Arbitration and award.
International commercial arbitration.
Conflict of laws.

K7041 / .M36 2009

341 MCL