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Queens' College

M.A., B.C.L. (Oxon.); Solicitor

Professor of Private International Law; Fellow of Queens' College

Private International Law, Civil Procedure, International Commercial Litigation, Comparative Law

Richard Fentiman is Professor of Private International Law at the University of Cambridge.

He is the author of International Commercial Litigation (2010), and Foreign Law in English Courts (1998), both published by Oxford University Press, and of numerous articles on private international law and international commercial litigation.

He was elected to the American Law Institute in 2007, and to the International Academy of Comparative Law in 2004.

He has lectured extensively in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. He delivered a Course at the Hague Academy of International Law (‘The Appropriate Forum in International Litigation’) in 2002.  He has held the Walter Ganshof van der Meersch Chair at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2001-2002), and has been a visiting professor at Cornell Law School (1992), and at the Institute of Comparative Law, Tokyo (1989).

He has been extensively involved in law reform in the areas of private international and international civil procedure. He has given evidence to several UK Parliamentary committees, and most recently gave oral evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on European Affairs concerning the European Commission's Green Paper on Reform of the Brussels I Regulation (June 2009) . He was an adviser to the American Law Institute’s project on ‘Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes’ (2001-2008). He was a member of the working groups of the Bank of England’s Financial Markets Law Committee, and co-author of its reports, on 'The Hague Securities Convention: Legal Assessment'; ‘The European Commission Final Proposal for a Regulation on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations (Rome I)'; ‘The European Commission Final Proposal for a Regulation on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations (Rome I): Suggestions for Amendments to Articles 7 and 13'; ‘The Brussels I Regulation: Article 23  Cases’ (2005-2008). He represented the UK Government in negotiations relating to the private international law aspects of the UNCITRAL Convention on  Receivables Financing, Vienna (1997). He was adviser to the European Commission, and author of its report on 'Intellectual Property and Private International  Law: the Hierarchy of National and Community Norms’ (1993).

He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Law and Financial Markets Review, and of the Journal of Private International Law.

He has served as the Director of the LLM Course, University of Cambridge, and as Chair of the Degee Committee of the Faculty of Law.

Richard Fentiman is a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, and previously practised in the City of London.

Richard Fentiman's updated commentary on Articles 27 and 28 of the Brussels I Regulation was recently published in The Brussels I Regulation, European Commentaries on Private International Law, edited by Ulrich Magnus, Peter Mankowski, 2nd edition, December 2011. http://nl.sellier.de/-link/483/79/1/23/1543/ZSc8K/0

His other recent publications include:

Books:

2010:  International Commercial Litigation (Oxford, OUP) http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/academic/law/international/private/9780199265435.do?zoneCode=ACZC042

 

Articles:

2011:  'Brussels I and Third States: Future Imperfect?', Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, Vol 13, 2010-2011, 65

2011:  'Arbitration in Europe: Immunity or Regulation?' (2011) 1 International Journal of Procedural Law 151

2010:  'Assignment and Rome I: Towards a Principled Solution' (2010) Law and Financial Markets Review 405

2010:  'Private International Law and the Downturn' http://conflictoflaws.net/2010/guest-editorial-fentiman-on-private-international-law-and-the-downturn/

2010:  'Trading Debts Across Borders: a European Solution', (2010) 17 Indiana Jl of Global Legal Studies 245

2009:  'The Significance of Close Connection', in Ahern & Binchy, eds, The Rome II Regulation on the Law Applicable to Non-contractual obligations (Leiden, Martinus Nijhoff)

2008:  ‘Choice of Law in Europe: Uniformity and Integration’, (2008) 82 Tulane L. R. 2021

2008:  ‘Justiciability, Discretion and Foreign Rights’, in Nuyts, ed., International Litigation in Intellectual Property and Information Technology' (Bruylant, Brussels, 2008)

2008:  ‘Parallel Proceedings and Jurisdiction Agreements in Europe’, in de Vareilles-Sommaires, ed., Forum Shopping in the European Judicial Area (Hart, Oxford, 2008)

2007:  ‘Laws, Foreign Laws and Facts’, in Holder and O’Cinneide, eds, (2006) 59 Current Legal Problems (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006) 391