Substance and Procedure in Private International Law

A welcome and timely treatise ... Professor Garnett's book goes a good long way towards minding the gap and suggesting what may fill it: both by what it does, but also by the responses it ought to stimulate in others who will realise that though the formal strength of the common law is the doctrine of precedent, it derives its rational strength from debate. Professor Garnett has defined his position, well and truly. We are very much better off as a result. Adrian Briggs, Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly (633) This book is an invaluable addition to the library of any private international law scholar. For the practitioner, it offers a thorough analysis of the law as it stands in a number of jurisdictions and provides incisive analysis of trends for future legal development. For the academic, it provides a framework for an area of private international law which has been, and remains, bedevilled by difficulty. In time, one suspects that Professor Garnett's work will come to shape the development of the law and will help to secure the coherence in this area to which his work is directed. . Dr Albert Dinelli, Ninian Stephen Chambers Quite simply, this is the most extended discussion of a seminal topic in the conflict of laws to be found anywhere in the common law world. It is an internationally significant work of great erudition and insight, written with a clarity that is worthy of acclamation. Andrew Bell SC, Australian Law Journal