Recycling Law: News on International Private Law By Patrick Wauthelet, Stephanie Francq, Sylvie Saroléa, and Caroline Henricot Synopsis This book concentrates on three aspects of international law. Firstly, the authors discuss the new European law on international contracts. They focus on the regime of international contracts in Belgium, with special emphasis on changes in the new EU regulations as well as other recent developments. Secondly, the authors discuss the Rome II Regulation on the law applicable to contractual obligations. Regulation 864/2007 (known as Rome II) came into force on January 11, 2009. Since then, its provisions are the benchmark for determining, in all international disputes, the law applicable to contractual obligations and on this point replaces the rules of the Code of Private International Law. This regulation covers a variety of situations that can occur in any general practice. Thirdly, the authors discuss private international law and family law: Private international law is constantly changing as regards the family. Deeply reformed by the CODIP four years ago, it continues to evolve under the influence of changes in domestic and foreign rights.

Review 1 The title of this book is highly deceptive - it was passed to me in the belief that the subject was international legislation covering recycling obligations. In fact, the book is nothing of the sort but covers what I think is called the law of torts (private and civil disputes etc). So why "recycling"? Wouldn't it have been less ambiguous to say "revising"? (Posted by Skip Hire)

Review 2 Let's face it - "recycling" has become a vogue word, used by all and sundry as a marketing ploy. We're all meant to be green now aren't we? Well that's just great but when is the council going to empty my rubbish? (Posted by Cynic from Slough)