Foreign Law in Civil Litigation: A Comparative and Functional Analysis

This work provides an analysis of how foreign law should be pleaded  and dealt with in the litigation process of another country. What weight  should the trial court give to the relevant foreign law, and how should  it decide what the foreign law actually is? The way foreign law is  procedurally treated in court indicates to a certain extent the degree  of tolerance of a legal system towards foreign ideas. The book compares  how these issues are handled in different national systems, with  particular focus upon civil litigation rules in the US, UK, France,  Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.