Second edition of the Research Handbook on EU Private International Law

Youseph Farah (University of East Anglia) and Elisabetta Bergamini (Università degli Studi di Udine) edited the second edition of the Research Handbook on EU Private International Law.

Published by Edward Elgar in its Research Handbooks in European Law series, the second edition of the Research Handbook addresses key questions and challenges in EU private international law.

Bringing together perspectives from both civil and common law, it examines not only civil matters, such as contract and tort, but also recent developments in family and succession law.

Expanding on topics discussed in the first edition, the Handbook includes new chapters on class actions, party autonomy, behavioural economics and the harmonisation of private international law in successions and parental responsibility. It adds to the analysis of the Rome I and II Regulations, with particular focus on the law applicable to defamation and privacy. The Handbook also explores parallel proceedings and the lis pendens rules, as well as a novel application of the effectiveness of EU law in the context of both Brussels I and arbitration. This edition assesses current proceedings and identifies new areas for improvement in EU private international law.

Contributors include Youseph Farah, Elisabetta Bergamini, Hong-Lin Yu, Sara Hourani, Pietro Franzina, Jeremy Heymann, Pontian Okoli, Indira Carr, Olugbenga Bamodu, Gülin Güneysu-Güngör, Johannes Ungerer, Peter Stone, David Kenny, Daniel Gilligan, Marios Koutsias and Francesco Deana.

This second edition of the Research Handbook on EU Private International Law is designed for a broad readership, offering an essential reference for scholars and students in EU private international law, European law, while also providing valuable insights for legal practitioners.