International Court Jurisdiction in Contractual Disputes

International Court Jurisdiction in Contractual Disputes Abstract The master thesis deals with the topic of international jurisdiction in contractual disputes with an international element. The aim of the thesis is to describe and analyse the legal framework of the topic at the level of national legislation, the rules in some international treaties and, in particular, the Brussels I Recast Regulation, which is the most important legal instrument of this framework from the point of view of persons living or domiciled in the territory of the European Union. A partial objective of the thesis is also the analysis of certain rules of international jurisdiction in contractual disputes in terms of their exorbitance, which may result in the refusal to recognise and enforce a foreign judgment. The first chapter of the thesis aims at describing the relevant rules for establishing the jurisdiction of courts in contractual disputes with an international element on the basis of national rules in the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom. It also compares these rules with each other and with the rules on international jurisdiction in the Brussels I Recast Regulation. The chapter also introduces the Hague Conference project on the unification of the rules for the mutual recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, of..