Conflicts of Worldviews and Private International Law
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978-1-5099-7853-3 (ISBN)
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This book connects European private international law with decolonial theory.
Decolonial theory calls for alternative modes of producing legal knowledge – ones that give greater weight to the worldviews of formerly colonised peoples across the globe, including in Europe. At the same time, private international law has been described as a particularly suitable field for welcoming more otherness (altérité) in European law. This book therefore 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 colonised parties involved, referred to here as ‘postcolonised worldviews’. Through three case studies – respectively addressing religious arbitration, Indigenous sacred land, and faith-based politics – 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 inclusive of the postcolonised worldviews present in the case studies.
This is an important work, thought-provoking and challenging, which should be read by private international law and comparative law scholars, and more generally by legal and non-legal scholars interested in legal theory and decoloniality.
Sandrine Brachotte is FWO Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Lecturer in Legal Theory at UCLouvain.
Introduction
1. Setting the Scene: Conflicts of Worldviews, Private International Law, Decoloniality, and a Decentering Methodology
Part 1: Conflicts of Worldviews Before Western Courts: Case Studies
2. Jivraj v Hashwani: Religious Arbitration
3. Ktunaxa v British Columbia: Indigenous Sacred Land
4. SMUG v Lively: Sexual Minorities in the Global South
Part II: Learning from the Case Studies: A Plural PIL Framework in Europe
5. For a Plural Theory of Choice of Court
6. For a Plural Theory of Foreign Law
7. For a Plural Theory of International Jurisdiction
8. Elements of a Theory of Decolonial Private International Law in Europe
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.7.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Hart Monographs in Transnational and International Law |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Internationales Privatrecht | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5099-7853-4 / 1509978534 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5099-7853-3 / 9781509978533 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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