Rome I Regulation. The Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations in Europe. Franco Ferrari Stefan Leible. edited by

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1 Rome I Regulation

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3 Rome I Regulation The Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations in Europe edited by Franco Ferrari Stefan Leible

4 ISBN (print) ISBN (ebook) The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at d-nb.de by sellier. european law publishers GmbH, Munich. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher. Design: Sandra Sellier, Munich. Production: Karina Hack, Munich. Typeface: Goudy Old Style and Goudy Sans from Linotype. Printing and binding: Friedrich Pustet KG, Regensburg. Printed on acid-free, non-ageing paper. Printed in Germany.

5 Preface Since it is believed that the proper functioning of the internal market creates a need, in order to improve the predictability of the outcome of litigation, certainty as to the law applicable and the free movement of judgments, for the confl ict-of-laws rules in the Member States to designate the same national law irrespective of the country of the court in which an action is brought, it cannot surprise that efforts have been made to draft uniform European conflict-of-laws rules in the area of contract law as well. In this book various authors examine in detail the result to which these efforts have led, namely the Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I). This volume comprises the papers which were presented at the Verona conference in March It was the third in a series of conferences. It all started in June 2003 at the University of Jena with a conference concerning the Green Paper on the conversion of the Rome Convention of 1980 on the law applicable to contractual obligations into a Community instrument and its modernisation (Stefan Leible [ed.], Das Grünbuch zum Internationalen Privatrecht. Beiträge zur Fortentwicklung des Europäischen Kollisionsrechts der vertraglichen Schuldverhältnisse, 2004). Shortly after the publication of the Commissions Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and the Council on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I) a second conference was held in September 2006 at the University of Bayreuth (Franco Ferrari/Stefan Leible, Ein neues Internationales Privatrecht für Europa Der Vorschlag für eine Rom I-Verordnung, 2007). May also this volume contribute to what has been an exciting discussion in the past and what will continue to be so for years to come. First and foremost, we wish to thank all contributors. Our thanks also go to Dr. Fransca Ragno for assisting us in organising this event. The conference was sponsored by Verona University Faculty of Law, Universitätsverein Bayreuth e. V., UniCredit Banca SpA and NCTM Studio Legale Associato. We are very grateful for this financial support. Without that sponsorship neither the conference could have been organised nor this book been published. Verona/Bayreuth, May 2009 Franco Ferrari and Stefan Leible

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7 List of Editors and Authors George A. Bermann Prof., Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law; Director, European Legal Studies, Columbia University, School of Law, Jerome L. Greene Hall, 435 West 116 th Street, New York NY 10027, USA Franco Ferrari Prof. Dr., LL.M. (Augsburg), Università degli Studi di Verona, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, Via C. Montanari 9, Verona, Italia, Inge Rennert Distinguished Visiting Professor, New York University School of Law, 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, USA Francisco Garcimartín Alférez Prof. Dr., Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Departamento de Derecho Privado, Campus Vicalvaro, Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, Pso. Artilleros s/n, Madrid, España Urs Peter Gruber Prof. Dr., Lehrstuhl für Bürgerliches Recht und Zivilprozessrecht, Johannes Gutenberg- Universität Mainz, Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Mainz, Germany Jonathan Harris Prof. Dr., Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom Helmut Heiss Prof. Dr., LL.M. (Chicago), Lehrstuhl für Privatrecht und Rechtsvergleichung, Universität Zürich, Treichlerstrasse 10, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland Michael Hellner Prof. Dr., Juridiska fakulteten, Uppsala Universitet, Associate Professor in Private International Law, P.O. Box 512, Uppsala, Sverige

8 viii List of Editors and Authors Matthias Lehmann Prof. Dr., LL.M. (Columbia), D.E.A. (Paris II), Lehrstuhl für Bürgerliches Recht, Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht, Europarecht, Internationales Privatrecht und Rechtsvergleichung, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Juristische Fakultät, Universitätsring 2, Halle (Saale), Germany Stefan Leible Prof. Dr., Lehrstuhl für Bürgerliches Recht, Internationales Privatrecht und Rechtsvergleichung, Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany Ulrich Magnus Prof. Dr., Seminar für ausländisches und internationales Privat- und Prozessrecht, Universität Hamburg, Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 - Flügel West, Hamburg, Germany Peter Mankowski Prof. Dr., Seminar für ausländisches und internationales Privat- und Prozessrecht, Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft, Schlüterstraße 28, Hamburg, Germany Peter Arnt Nielsen Prof., PhD, LL.M. (Cambridge), Juridisk Institut/Law Department, Handelshøjskolen/Copenhagen Business School, Howitzvej 13, 3., 2000 Frederiksberg, Danmark Yuko Nishitani Prof. Dr., Visiting Professor, Hosei University Law School, Tokyo/ Japan; researcher at the University of Cologne, Germany; c/o Max-Planck-Institut, Mittelweg 187, Hamburg, Germany Fausto Pocar Prof. Dr., Università degli Studi di Milano, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, Dipartimento di diritto pubblico, processuale, civile, internazionale ed europeo, Via Festo del Perdono, 7, Milano, Italia Francesca Ragno Dr., Università degli Studi di Verona, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, Via C. Montanari 9, Verona, Italia Fryderyk Zoll Prof. Dr. hab., Katedra Prawa Cywilnego UJ, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydzial Prawa i Administracji, Ul. Bracka 12, Kraków, Polska

9 Table of contents Preface List of Editors and Authors v vii Party Autonomy 1 Helmut Heiss The Draft Common Frame of Reference as an Instrument of the Autonomous Qualification in the Context of the Rome I Regulation 17 Fryderyk Zoll Article 4 Rome I Regulation: The Applicable Law in the Absence of Choice 27 Ulrich Magnus Contracts Concerning Intellectual Property Rights 51 Yuko Nishitani Financial Instruments 85 Matthias Lehmann The Rome I Regulation and Contracts of Carriage 99 Peter Arnt Nielsen Insurance Contracts 109 Urs Peter Gruber The Law Applicable to Consumer Contracts under the Rome I Regulation 129 Francesca Ragno Employment Contracts under Article 8 of the Rome I Regulation 171 Peter Mankowski

10 x Table of contents Assignment of claims in the Rome I Regulation: Article Francisco J. Garcimartín Alférez Set-off 251 Michael Hellner Mandatory Rules and Public Policy under the Rome I Regulation 269 Jonathan Harris Some Remarks on the Relationship between the Rome I and Brussels I Regulations 343 Fausto Pocar Rome I: A Comparative View 349 George A. Bermann Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I) 359