E B Crawford and J M Carruthers, INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE LAW: A SCOTS PERSPECTIVE Edinburgh: W Green (www.wgreen.co.uk), 3rd edn, 2010. cxv + 632 pp. ISBN 9780414017757. £45.

AuthorKirsty J Hood
DOI10.3366/elr.2012.0092
Published date01 January 2012
Date01 January 2012
Pages132-134

International private law is currently a rapidly-changing area of the law. Readers will therefore welcome the publication of a new edition of this work by Professor Elizabeth Crawford and Professor Janeen Carruthers. This, the third edition, also sees the text move away from the Greens Concise Scots Law series, to take its place as an independent volume within Green's range of titles. It is apparent throughout the new edition that the brisk tempo of development in the subject can still chiefly be ascribed to the European Union. Whilst the chapter headings of the second edition have largely been retained, there has been much new European material to be worked into many of the individual chapters. Even the nuanced change of title (from International Private Law in Scotland to International Private Law: A Scots Perspective), reflects the increased harmonisation of many conflict rules, whether at British, European, or a wider international level: but which are viewed here from the Scottish perspective.

The second edition of the text had already included analysis of the important ECJ decisions of Erich Gasser GmbH v Misat Srl, Turner v Grovit, and Owusu v Jackson (which, respectively, upheld the primacy of the court first seised...

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