Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
LEX MERCATORIA
Deutsche Schachtbau-und Tiefbohrgesellschaft mbH v. R’As Al Khaimah National Oil Co.
The conventional method of ascertaining the law applicable to the merits of a dispute is to select a national system of law by identifying and applying the relevant so-called “conflict” rules of private international law. The law so chosen is then
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