Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Brand & Herrup: The 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements: Commentary and Documents

Ronald A. Brand (Univ. of Pittsburgh) & Paul M. Herrup (Office of Foreign Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice) have published The 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements: Commentary and Documents (Cambridge Univ. Press 2008). Here's the abstract:
The Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements was concluded on June 30, 2005, and promises to become an important instrument in judicial relations throughout the world, making choice of forum clauses both more likely to be honored and more likely to lead to judgments that will be recognized and enforced around the globe. The convention, and the proposed treatise, will serve as an indispensable source for both transactions lawyers drafting the transnational commercial contracts of the future and for litigators involved in the resolution of disputes between parties to important transnational commercial transactions.