Conflict of Laws - Cases and Materials

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Description
Conflict of Laws is specially designed for students pursuing the three-year or five-year degree course in law education institutes including national law schools. The book will be useful for scholars as well as to practitioners interested in the subject. It will also be a good reference guide for students and researchers to understand the approach and concepts relating to private international law. It can be read by academicians to activists, lawyers to laymen. This book is based, mutatis mutandis, on the framework of the Halsbury's Laws of England. This book focuses on personal relations affecting marriage, adoption, legitimacy and legitimation that are governed by the personal law system. It includes various statutory laws, judicial pronouncements, doctrines, international conventions and procedures. The text is divided into 11 chapters based on the broad themes of domicile and residence, family law, orders as to children, contracts, torts, property, succession, insolvency and corporation, foreign judgments and procedures.
Key Features
*    Simplifies various doctrines, theories and concepts of the subject
*    Provides proficient global awareness
*    Refers to Important Indian and foreign case laws
*    Provides a parallel analysis of various Indian and foreign laws
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Contents
1.    Introduction
2.    Domicile and Residence
3.    Family Law
4.    Orders as to Children
5.    Contracts
6.    Torts
7.    Property
8.    Succession
9.    Insolvency and Corporations
10.  Foreign Judgments
11.  Procedure
Subject Index
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Author Details
VC Govindaraj is a former Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. He has spent his lifetime in the study of international law-public and private, constitutional law, besides teaching students of Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, subjects like Roman law, law of international institutions and human rights , law of the sea and other allied subjects in public international law. He has also been a visiting professor at various prestigious universities and academic institutions.
Professor Govindaraj practised in the High Court of Judicature at Madras in the years from 1953 to 1958.
Prior to joining the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, in the year 1959, he earned his Master's degree in Economics and Master's degree in international and constitutional law from the University of Madras. He earned a doctoral degree from the University of Delhi while he was engaged , as a faculty member, teaching and guiding students in their research activities.
In the years 1972 to 1974, he worked for the Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee, New Delhi, as Assistant Director of Research, public international law, on deputation from the University of Delhi.
He was a Visiting Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in the 1980s and a Visiting Scholar at the School of Law, Columbia University, New York from 1969 to 1970. In the years 1988 to 1989, he was a Senior Fellow of the Ford Foundation on Human Rights. He has also been a Visiting Professor at National Law School of India University, Bangalore from 1989 to 1990. He was Vice-President of the Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi.
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