Private International Law from the Equitable Jurisdiction: Imperialism, Universalism and Pluralism

• Main Author: Yeo, Tiong Min
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Conflict of Laws; Jurisdiction
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/yph_lect/3; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=yph_lect
• Institution: Singapore Management University

One side-effect of globalization is increasing cross-border conflict arising from transactions between parties. Today, the courts have sophisticated tools to deal with such conflicts. The focus of this paper is the interrelation between the court’s approach when dealing with problems in its equitabl...