BRUSSELS I REGULATION. Eds Ulrich Magnus and Peter Mankowski Munich: Sellier (www.sellier.de), 2012. xxvii + 972 pp. ISBN 9783866538894. €250.
| Author | Paul Beaumont |
| DOI | 10.3366/elr.2013.0145 |
| Published date | 01 January 2013 |
| Date | 01 January 2013 |
| Pages | 106-107 |
This is an excellent article by article analysis of the Brussels I Regulation edited by two leading German private international law academics. The two Hamburg Professors have written a significant proportion of the text (Mankowski wrote 206 pages on Article 5 – special jurisdictions – including a particularly magisterial treatment of the contract jurisdiction in Article 5(1) – 27 pages on Articles 35 and 36, and 68 pages on Articles 61 to 76; while Magnus wrote 42 pages on the introduction and 78 pages on Article 23 – choice of court agreements). The remainder of the commentaries on the Articles are written by distinguished academics from all over Europe including Pippa Rogerson (Article 1), Paul Vlas (Articles 2–4 and 59–60), Horatia Muir Watt (Articles 6 and 7), Peter Arnt Neilsen (Articles 15–17) and Richard Fentiman (Articles 27–30).
An article by article commentary is a very German style of book. Writers from countries that have codified the law are used to this approach. It is a little alien to readers in the UK who are more used to the material being divided up on the basis of the subject matter. For readers who want to be able to see the wood for the trees it is essential to read the introduction. It skilfully sets out the main purposes of Brussels I, how the Regulation has evolved from its predecessor the Brussels Convention, the relationship with the Lugano Convention, the competence of the EU, the approach to the...
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