Product Description: Put together as a festschrift for Sir Peter North, one of the world's leading private international lawyers, this book is also a valuable contribution in its own right to the field of reform and development of private international law...read more

Product Description: Many medical and pharmaceutical workers have very little knowledge of statistics. Yet statistics is one of the tools must commonly used in their field. This book aims to give the reader a clear understanding of statistics, particularly in a medical context...read more

Product Description: The nine essays collected here, some originally delivered as lectures, others written as law journal articles, have all appeared over the past fifteen years. They examine issues of topical importance in the three traditional areas of private international law: the jurisdiction of the courts, choice of the applicable law, and the recognition of foreign judgments...read more

Product Description: This text deals with statistics as a systematization of common sense. There is necessarily a mathematical content, but it is kept to a minimum and explained in simple terms. The book should be useful for those who have to read texts in which the data have been subjected to statistical analysis and who would like to understand more fully what it means...read more

Product Description: This book is a revised updated version of the General Course of Lectures on Private International Law delivered at the Hague Academy of International Law in 1990. The overall purpose is to examine the development and reform of choice of law rules in a number of common law jurisdictions...read more

The new edition has been substantially updated to offer an up-to-date and authoritative account of the law in this rapidly changing field. As well as general updating, the chapter on Torts has been completely rewritten and the growing importance of the law of restitution has led to the inclusion of a new separate chapter on the private international law aspects of this significant field of the law of obligations. The major developments in the law on jurisdiction and the recognition of foreign judgements have also been fully discussed.