Publisher's Synopsis
Since 1st April 1991, courts in the United Kingdom and other European Community states have been required to apply the rules laid down in the EEC's Rome Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations. These regulations apply to international contracts concluded since then. In the United Kingdom, the Convention is given the force of law by the Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990. It is likely that at some time in the not too distant future, national appellate courts of the Contracting States will have the power to refer questions of interpretation of the Convention to the European court of Justice in Luxembourg. - - The book sets out to explain and to construe the new uniform system of rules governing laws applicable to international contracts, in the light of the pre-existing English private international law of contract, which itself continues to apply in relation to certain types of transactions. - - The New Private International Law of Contract of the European Community not only gives a detailed analysis of each provision of the new law, it goes a step beyond to consider its global impact.
