The relevance of the mandatory provisions in the field of the law applicable to non contractual obligations of the Rome II Regulation: limits on the application of the lex causae

Abstract

This work analyzes the relevance of the mandatory provisions in the field of the law applicable to non contractual obligations of the Rome II Regulation. On the one hand, the lois de police or overriding mandatory provisions of the forum, of a foreign law and of the proper lex causae, once the selection of the governing applicable law through freedom of choice rules or through those rules applicable in default of agreement. And, on the other hand, the relevance of domestic and EU provisions which cannot be derogated from by agreement under the agreement between the person claimed to be liable and the person who has sustained damage to submit non-contractual obligations to the law of their choice.