This book offers an accessible introduction to the challenging area of the conflict of laws. Fully reconfigured to take into account the changes which have taken place since 2011, and endeavouring to make sense of the state of the law which will be in place after Brexit, this volume is an essential overview to the field.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Jurisdiction


• 3: Foreign Judgments


• 4: Choice of Law: the Lex Fori


• 5: Obligations: Contractual


• 6: Obligations: Non-Contractual


• 7: Property


• 8: Persons


• 9: Corporations

Adrian Briggs QC is Professor of Private International Law at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Edmund Hall. He is a member of Blackstone Chambers, from where he practises, predominantly in the field of private international law.