In the changing post-World War II global economic landscape, the UN Vienna Sales Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) emerged as a project of uniform law.[i] In a transnational context, it aimed to displace the localization of the law in favor of delocalization to remove the…
The EU instruments governing cross-border cooperation in civil matters extend to cases and legal relationships that are characterised by an international element. So does the Brussels Ia Regulation 1215/2012, which harmonises the law of international jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments. In the case of Inkreal (C-497/22), the…
Recent health and safety accidents in the offshore oil and gas industry have raised questions on the role of regulation, safety culture and overall management or risks in both established and emerging offshore energy industries. A second death was reported some weeks ago as a fatal fire broke out on…
Introduction
Transnational law is typically understood as “all law which regulates actions or events that transcend national frontiers.”[i] This includes domestic laws that mediate among national systems, and international laws which set standards that governments must comply with or provide for through their domestic laws. Scholars of transnational law attempt…
This blog explores transnational women’s legal history. More specifically, it looks at a problematic element of historical defamation law affecting women, and how common law jurisdictions around the world were spurred to create legislation tackling this issue throughout the course of the nineteenth century. Thus, while this blog discusses private…
