Lis Pendens in International Litigation

ISBN-13: 9789004179097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 485 str.

Auteur Campbell McLachlan

Opis

Also available as an e-book What legal principles apply when courts in different jurisdictions are simultaneously seised with the same dispute ? This question -- of international lis pendens -- has long been controversial. But it has taken on new and urgent importance in our age. Globalization has driven an unprecedented rise in forum shopping between national courts and a proliferation of new international tribunals. Problems of litispendence have spawned some of the most dramatic litigation of modern times -- from anti-suit injunction battles in commercial disputes, to the appeals of prisoners on death row to international human rights tribunals. The way we respond to this challenge has profound theoretical implications for the interaction of legal systems in today's pluralistic world. In this wide-ranging survey, McLachlan analyses the problems of parallel litigation -- in private and public international law and international arbitration. He argues that we need to develop a more sophisticated set of rules of conflict of litigation, guided by a cosmopolitan conception of the rule of law. Quels principes juridiques font foi lorsque des tribunaux de differentes juridictions sont saisis simultanement pour le meme litige ? La problematique de la litispendance internationale a longtemps ete controversee. Mais, de nos jours, elle devient de plus en plus importante. La mondialisation a entraine une augmentation sans precedent de surencheres judiciaires entre les tribunaux nationaux, ainsi qu'une proliferation de nouveaux tribunaux internationaux. Les problemes de litispendance ont engendre quelques uns des litiges les plus dramatiques des temps modernes, allant des batailles d'anti-suit injunction lors de litiges commerciaux aux appels des prisonniers dans le couloir de la mort devant les tribunaux internationaux des droits de l'Homme. La maniere dont nous faisons face a ce defi a de grandes implications theoriques pour les interactions des systemes judiciaires dans notre monde pluraliste. Dans cette etude de grande envergure, McLachlan analyse les problemes de litiges paralleles au niveau du droit international prive et public, ainsi que l'arbitrage international. Selon lui, nous devons concevoir de nouvelles regles plus sophistiquees concernant les conflits de litiges, tout en respectant une conception cosmopolite de l'Etat de droit.

Recenzje

"[T]he breadth of research in which Professor McLachlan has engaged across three separate legal disciplines ... [and] the author's practical experience at the 'sharp end' of litigation covering these disciplines pervades the book....The book is recommended to academics and legislators working in the relevant fields." - Adam Rushworth, Law Quarterly Review (January 2011)

"The virtue of this book is that it tackles the big problems head-on.... It also provides the simple pleasure of reading a crisp and illuminating account by a master of our trade of the state of the art in perhaps the most interesting legal topic of our time: the international scene." - Baragwanath J [2009] NZLJ 365

O autorze

Campbell McLachlan QC (LLB (Well.) ; PhD (Lond.) ; Dip. (c.l.) Hague Acad. Int'l Law) is Professor of Law at Victoria University of Wellington ; a practising barrister (Bankside Chambers, Auckland & Essex Court Chambers, London) ; and arbitrator (ICSID, Washington). He combines extensive scholarly research into international dispute resolution with 20 years' practical experience in the field in London and
globally.