Commercial Private International Law in Southern Africa

<jats:p> This book contains a collection of essays in honour of Professor Christopher F Forsyth KC, <jats:italic>emeritus</jats:italic> Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law, sometime Professor of Private International Law, and Life Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge. </jats:p> <jats:p> The essays focus on Professor Forsyth’s contribution to the development of commercial private international law in Southern Africa, particularly through his monograph <jats:italic>Private International Law. The Modern Roman-Dutch Law</jats:italic> (five editions between 1981 and 2012). This standard text is authoritative in Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and  Zimbabwe. </jats:p> <jats:p>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.</jats:p>