Adrian Briggs
Professor of Private International Law
Adrian Briggs is a Fellow and Tutor at St Edmund Hall and has been teaching in Oxford since 1980. His main interest is in the conflict of laws, and within that, in questions of civil jurisdiction and the recognition of foreign judgments. He is an assistant editor of Dicey & Morris (14th edn. 2006, and supplements), and has chambers in the Temple from which he is able to remind himself that although it is one thing to persuade oneself that the law is clear and explicable, it is quite another to persuade a court.
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2013
A Briggs, 'Recognition of Foreign Judgments: A Matter of Obligation' (2013) 129 (2013) Law Quarterly Review, Sweet & Maxwell 87 [...]
Evaluation of the theory explaining which foreign judgments have an effect (and if any, what effect) in the English legal order.
ISBN: 0023-933X
2012
A Briggs, 'The Principle of Comity in Private International Law' (2012) 354 Receuil des Cours: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law 65 [...]
Text of a course on the nature and role of comity in private inernational law derived from lectures given at the Hague Academy in June 2011
ISBN: 9789004227286
A Briggs, 'The subtle variety of jurisdiction agreements' (2012) informa; Lloyd's Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly 364 [...]
Analysis of and reflection upon the various functions of jurisdiction agreements at common law and in the regime of the Brussels I Regulation
ISBN: 0306 2945
2011
A Briggs, 'The Rejection of Abuse in International Civil Procedure' in Rita de la Feria and Stefan Vogenauer (eds), Prohibition of Abuse of Law (Hart Publishing 2011) [...]
Analysis of the principe of abuse of law as a component (or not) of private international law so far as this is governed by European Union law.
ISBN: 978184113988
A Briggs, 'What shold be done about jurisdiction agreements ?' (2011) 12 Yearbook of Private International Law / Sellier European Law Publishers 311 [...]
Consideration of the approach to be taken to disputed jurisdiction agreements in the particular context of the proposals for the reform of the Brussels I Regulation.
ISBN: 9783866531895
2009
A Briggs, Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments, Fifth Edition (P J Rees (no authorial role), informa 2009) [...]
The law on civil jurisdiction and the recognition of judgments
ISBN: 9781843118152
2008
A Briggs, Agreements on Jurisdiction and Choice of Law (OUP: Oxford Private International Law Series 2008) [...]
Analysis of common and European law as it governs and relates to agreements on jurisdiction and choice of law, including attention to scope, validity, drafting, and enforcement by direct and indirect means.
ISBN: 9780199282302
Interests
Teaching: Conflict of Laws; Contract; Land Law
Research: Conflict of Laws (especially jurisdiction and foreign judgements)
