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The Rome I Proposal

In 2006, the Commission of the European Communities tabled a proposal for a Regulation on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations (Rome I) (cited as the Proposal).1 The forthcoming Regulation will supercede the Rome Convention on the same subject matter. The Convention has been ratified or acceded to by almost all Member States of the European Union.2 The Rome Convention is, as will be explained, a sophisticated private international law instrument that generally applies to all contractual obligations. The Convention supplements the Brussels I Regulation on Jurisdiction and Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil Matters.3 As such, the Rome Convention is a cornerstone in European civil co-operation, and its principal purpose is to eliminate forum shopping by harmonising the choice-of-law rules for contracts.4 Whereas the Rome Convention was negotiated and agreed under the institutional framework for civil co-operation during the 1970s that is on an international legal basis and, as a Convention, the Commission’s Proposal has been tabled in accordance with Articles 61 and 65 of the EC Treaty as a Regulation. This new institutional framework ensures swift and efficient harmonisation, because Regulations, unlike Conventions, do not have to be implemented in April 2007 Journal of Private International Law 29

The Swedish code of judicial procedure

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Dicey & Morris, The Conflict of Laws: A Review

The twelfth edition of Dicey & Morris, The Conflict of Laws (hereafter Dicey & Morris ) appeared in 1993 under the general editorship of Dr Lawrence Collins and with Professors Trevor C. Hartley, J. D. McClean and C. G. J. Morse as specialist editors. It has since been updated by a yearly cumulative supplement; the latest is from 1997. The book takes in the whole province of private international law and is rich in material and ideas. It shows how English lawyers have reacted to the outside world without forgetting that the conflict of laws has an international character. Its students consider it to be a noble science. As Arthur Nussbaum said, the student of private international law “feels himself, as it were, a member of an international community of learning. He will have to study foreign legal ideas and will thereby obtain insight into the variety and interplay of heterogeneous legal concepts and ideas all over the world.”