Rome I Regulation: The Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations in Europe
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Since it is believed that the proper functioning of the internal market creates a need, in order to improve the predictability of the outcome of litigation, certainty as to the law applicable and the free movement of judgments, for the conflict-of-laws rules in the Member States to designate the same national law irrespective of the country of the court in which an action is brought, it cannot surprise that efforts have been made to draft uniform European conflict-of-laws rules in the area of contract law as well. In this book various authors examine in detail the result to which these efforts have led, namely the Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I). This volume comprises the papers which were presented at the Verona conference in March 2009. It was the third in a series of conferences. It all started in June 2003 at the University of Jena with a conference concerning the “Green Paper on the conversion of the Rome Convention of 1980 on the law applicable to contractual obligations into a Community instrument and its modernisation” (Stefan Leible [ed.], Das Grünbuch zum Internationalen Privatrecht. Beiträge zur Fortentwicklung des Europäischen Kollisionsrechts der vertraglichen Schuldverhältnisse, 2004). Shortly after the publication of the Commissions “Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and the Council on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I)” a second conference was held in September 2006 at the University of Bayreuth (Franco Ferrari/Stefan Leible, Ein neues Internationales Privatrecht für Europa – Der Vorschlag für eine Rom I-Verordnung, 2007). May also this volume contribute to what has been an exciting discussion in the past and what will continue to be so for years to come.
Publication Date
2009
Recommended Citation
Ferrari, Franco and Leible, Stefan, "Rome I Regulation: The Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations in Europe" (2009). Faculty Books & Edited Works. 859.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-books-edited-works/859
