Brachotte’s Conflicts of Worldviews and PIL: Discount and Virtual Book Launch

Sandrine Brachotte (University of Antwerp, UCLouvain, UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles)’s Conflicts of Worldviews and Private International Law is out.

This book develops a decolonial theory of European private international law. To do so, it begins with Western court cases involving what the author terms a ‘conflict of worldviews’: a clash between the legal frameworks governing the dispute and the worldviews of the formerly colonized parties involved, referred to here as ‘postcolonised worldviews’.

Through three case studies – respectively addressing religious arbitration, Indigenous sacred land, and sexual minorities in the Global South – the book demonstrates that courts routinely overlook these conflicts. As a result, the claims of formerly colonised parties are inadequately addressed.

To remedy this structural discrimination within European private international law, the book proposes a pluralised theory of choice of court, foreign law, and international jurisdiction, more empowering of the postcolonised worldviews present in the case studies, and supportive of the emancipation of vulnerable identities among postcolonised people.

Published by Hart Publishing, readers of this Blog are offered the following discount:

Sep 2026 | 9781509978533 | 416pp | Hbk | RRP: £100

Discount Price: £80

Order online at www.hartpublishing.co.uk  – use the code GLR BD8 to get 20% off!

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A virtual book launch will take place on 6 October 2026, from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. (CEST), within the virtual workshop series “Current Research in Private International Law”, organised by Ralf Michaels and Antonia Sittig (both Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law).

On that occasion, Sandrine Brachotte and María Julia Ochoa Jiménez (Comillas Pontifical University) will discuss the book.

Details and the registration link for the virtual book launch are available on this website.