Putting the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in context: Comparative Recognition and Enforcement, by Dr Drossos Stamboulakis

• Published in: Journal of private international law Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 302 - 320
• Main Author: Hayward, Benjamin
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 04.05.2023; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Acknowledgment; Arbitration and award; Common law; Conflict of laws; Enforcement; Judgments, Foreign; Recognition (International law); GREAT BRITAIN
• ISSN: 1744-1048; 1757-8418
• DOI: 10.1080/17441048.2023.2236872

In 'R (Daly) v Secretary of State for the Home Department', Lord Steyn offered the "famous aphorism" that "[i]n law context is everything". Duly noting this remark's own context - a prisoner's rights case, perhaps as far away from private international law ("PIL") as one might get - it is a particularly appropriate place to begin my review article addressing 'Comparative Recognition and Enforcement: Foreign Judgments and Awards' by Dr Drossos Stamboulakis. This is for two reasons. First, this excellent work assesses the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments itself - both its current state, and its potential future directions - in context. Secondly, this work is exceptionally timely, being published amidst a broader external PIL context reinforcing the importance of the PIL subject-matters it examines, and also being published alongside other contemporary PIL jurisdictional scholarship having a bearing upon the enforcement issues under examination here.