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This collection explores and rethinks how characterisation operates to identify the relevant rules in the conflict of laws in cross-border cases.

Despite its fundamental importance in private international law, characterisation remains methodologically contested and resists uniform treatment. Bringing together scholars and practitioners, the volume offers in-depth and pluralistic accounts of characterisation's distinctive challenges and purposes. It combines historical and doctrinal analysis with new approaches, including inter-cultural and post-categorical perspectives, and examines techniques for rules of national, supranational, and international provenance.

Spanning Common Law, Civil Law, and mixed jurisdictions, the chapters test characterisation in general and in specific areas where it matters most (such as in equity, family, and corporate contexts) as well as at the intersection of private and public international law.

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Table of Contents

Introduction, Caterina Benini, Felix Berner, and Johannes Ungerer


Part One: The History and Theory of Characterisation


1. Historical Perspectives on Characterisation, Martin Gebauer
2. Is There any Magic in Characterisation?, Andrew Dickinson
3. Re- Characterisations, Pietro Franzina
4. Substance/Procedure and Right/Remedy Distinctions, Joanna Langille


Part Two: The Challenges of Characterisation in Specific Areas

5. Characterising Equitable Concepts, Yip Man
6. Characterisation of Contractual Arrangements in the Context of Family Law, Alex Critchley
7. Characterisation in International M&A Disputes, Thomas Klink

Part Three: Rethinking Characterisation

8. Characterisation from a Unilateralist Perspective, Jeremy Heymann
9. Against Characterisation?, Ralf Michaels
10. Post-Categorical Characterisation, Philomena Hindermann
11. Characterisation as a Tool to Manage Diversity, Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm

Part Four: Characterisation at the Intersection of Private and Public International Law

12. Private International Law Treaty Interpretation and Characterisation, Alex Mills
13. Characterisation at the Hague Conference, Marta Pertegás Sender

Product details

Published 15 Apr 2027
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 352
ISBN 9781509991723
Imprint Hart Publishing
Series Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Johannes Ungerer

Johannes Ungerer is Erich Brost Senior Departmenta…

Anthology Editor

Caterina Benini

Dr Caterina Benini is a Adjunct Professor at Catho…

Anthology Editor

Felix Berner

Dr Felix Berner is Senior Research Fellow at the U…

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