ISBN: 9781933833651    Publisher: JURIS Year of publishing: 2011     Format:  Hardback Language: English

Transtiol Litigation and Commercial Arbitration is a case-oriented study of the rules and procedures regulating the resolution of commercial disputes arising in a transtiol context. It compares European and American rules of private intertiol and procedural law and discusses: --The Substance and Procedure of Transtiol Disputes --Extraterritorial Jurisdiction as exercised by European and American tiol courts in cases brought against foreign defendants --Extraterritorial Service and Evidence Abroad --The Applicable Law - in Contract and Tort --Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments --Intertiol Commercial Arbitration For those wishing a grounding comparison and alysis of European and American litigation Transtiol Litigation and Commercial Arbitration is an invaluable reference.
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Joseph Lookofsky is Professor of Private and Commercial Law at the University of Copenhagen. He received his B.A. in Economics from Lehigh University his J.D. from the New York University School of Law and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1971. He received his Danish law degrees (cand.jur. and dr.jur.) from the University of Copenhagen and joined the Law Faculty there in 1982. Professor Lookofsky has lectured on the CISG and other intertiol commercial law topics for the Danish Bar Association (Advokatsamfund) the Duke University Law School in North Caroli the University of Bolog (Facoltá di Giurisprudenza) the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Institut für Ausländisches und Intertioles Privatrecht) and the Cornell-Paris I (Sorbonne) Summer Institute of Intertiol & Comparative Law. He is also Secretary General of the Danish Committee for Comparative Law (Association Intertiole des Sciences Juridiques. Ketilbjorn Hertz is Senior Consultant with the Danish Ministry of Justice which he joined in 1997 and in that capacity he has participated in the drafting of important legislation including the Bill which led to the adoption of the Danish Arbitration Act 2005 He received degrees from the University of Copenhagen B.A. in law in 1991 cand.jur. in 1993 B.A. in French in 1998 and Ph.D. in law in 1998.
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