Commercial Private International Law in Southern Africa: Comparative and International Perspectives: Essays in Honour of Professor Christopher F Forsyth KC

This Festschrift contains a collection of essays in honour of Professor Christopher F Forsyth KC, emeritus Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law, sometime Professor of Private International Law, and Life Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge.

The essays focus on Professor Forsyth’s contribution to the development of commercial private international law in Southern Africa, particularly through his monograph Private International Law. The Modern Roman-Dutch Law (five editions between 1981 and 2012). This standard text is authoritative in Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

The essays are written from a variety of comparative and international perspectives, but all focus on the further development of commercial private international law in the Southern African region. The authors are from Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Germany, Ghana, Japan, Malawi, Mauritius, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Portugal, South Africa, Switzerland, Tunisia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

A small book launch will be held for this book at Robinson College on 19 October at 11am.

For more information about this book, please refer to the UJ Press website.

Professor Forsyth has an entry which includes an extensive biography in the Eminent Scholars Archive.