Forum (and Law) Shopping
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Description
According to some courts, '[f]orum shopping is a dirty word' (Atlantic Star v Bona Spes [1974] AC 436, 471). Although this may be an exaggeration, it is true that there is hostility towards 'forum shopping' and that the term has disparaging—if not pejorative—connotations (Friedrich K Juenger, 'Forum Shopping, Domestic and International' (1989) 63 Tul.L.Rev. 553, 553), indicating something that commentators and courts consider to be, if not 'evil', at least deplorable and, therefore, must be deterred. It is to reach that goal that various policies against forum shopping have developed on both a local and broader level.
Source Publication
Encyclopedia of Private International Law
Source Editors/Authors
Jürgen Basedow, Giesela Rühl, Franco Ferrari, Pedro de Miguel Asensio
Publication Date
2017
Volume Number
1
Recommended Citation
Ferrari, Franco, "Forum (and Law) Shopping" (2017). Faculty Chapters. 563.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/563
