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18 Oxford U. Commw. L.J. 1 (2018)

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMMONWEALTH  LAW JOURNAL
2018, VOL. 18, NO. 1, 1-15
https://doi.org/10.1080/14729342.2018.1436262


Routledge
Taylor & Francis Group


Indian private international law vis-6-vis party

autonomy in the choice of law

Saloni  Khanderia

Jindal Global Law School, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India


ARTICLE HISTORY   Received 3 August 2017; Accepted 20 October 2017

KEYWORDS Indian   private international law; party autonomy; choice of law; international commercial
contracts



1. Introduction

The  principle of party autonomy refers to the freedom of the parties to choose
the  governing   law' or the  proper  law2 of the  contract. As a part  of the 'choice



CONTACT   Saloni Khanderia 0 skhanderia@jgu.edu.in
1See Adrian Briggs, Agreements on Jurisdiction and Choice of Law (Oxford University Press 2008) 37. Also
  see generally PE Nygh, Autonomy in International Contracts (Clarendon 1999); Symeon C Symeonides,
  'Party Autonomy in International Contracts and the Multiple Ways of Slicing the Apple' (2014) 39 Brook-
  lyn Journal of International Law 1123; James Miller & Partners Ltd v Whitworth Street Estates (Manchester)
  Ltd [1970] AC 583 (House of Lords (HL)).
2See Lawrence Collins et al (eds), Dicey and Morris on the Conflict of Laws, vol 2 (11th edn, Stevens & Sons
  1987) 1161-96, which defines 'proper law of the contract' as the law (or laws), or rules by which, the
  parties intended or may have fairly be presumed to have intended in a contract to be governed, or
  may have fairly be presumed to have intended to submit themselves.
0 2018 Faculty of Law, Oxford University

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