{"product_id":"9781509978533","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Conflicts of Worldviews and Private International Law by Sandrine Brachotte","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 17\/09\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book connects European private international law with decolonial theory.   Decolonial theory calls for alternative modes of producing legal knowledge - ones that give greater weight to the worldviews of formerly colonised peoples across the globe, including in Europe. At the same time, private international law has been described as a particularly suitable field for welcoming more otherness (alt?rit?) in European law. This book therefore develops a decolonial theory of European private international law. To do so, it begins with Western court cases involving what the author terms a `conflict of worldviews': a clash between the legal frameworks governing the dispute and the worldviews of the formerly colonised parties involved, referred to here as `postcolonised worldviews'. Through three case studies - respectively addressing religious arbitration, Indigenous sacred land, and faith-based politics - the book demonstrates that courts routinely overlook these conflicts. As a result, the claims of formerly colonised parties are inadequately addressed. To remedy this structural discrimination within European private international law, the book proposes a pluralised theory of choice of court, foreign law, and international jurisdiction, more inclusive of the postcolonised worldviews present in the case studies.   This is an important work, thought-provoking and challenging, which should be read by private international law and comparative law scholars, and more generally by legal and non-legal scholars interested in legal theory and decoloniality. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368952213877,"sku":"9781509978533","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781509978533","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}