title: The closest connection principle as escape clause for  contractual legal relations of international character
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metadata.value: Novikova, Tatiana V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-06-19T12:01:26Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-06-19T12:01:26Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Novikova, Tatiana V. 2023. “The closest connection principle as escape clause for  contractual legal relations of international character”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law 2: 403–422. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2023.208 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2023.208
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/41597
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article contains analysis of escape clause stipulated by Art. 1211-9 of the Civil Code of the 
  Russian Federation and allowing the court, when choosing applicable law for contract, in ex ceptional cases to reject the conflict of laws rule prescribed by law in favor of the law which is 
  obviously more connected to contract. The author conducts a case by case analysis of Russian 
  judicial practice, including judicial acts in which application of escape clause is extensively 
  substantiated and those in which such application is based on the sole counter-directed link 
  of contract or is barely substantiated. Moreover, the examples of disaffirmation of judicial acts 
  which have been based on unjustified application of Art. 1211-9 of the Civil Code of the Rus sian Federation as well as cases of illustrative utilization of the indicated provision are under 
  analysis. The author pays special attention to the standard (criteria) of the closest connection 
  principle applied under the auspices of escape clause for contractual legal relations of interna tional character. The author stands for thesis that the court recourse to escape clause of Art. 
  1211-9 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation as an exceptional case requires ‘compara tive weighing’ of differently directed links of the exact contract culminating in clear conclu sion on sum of significant links to the law of other country in contrast to insignificant link to 
  the law of country indicated by conflict of laws rule. At the same time, indicators (criteria) of 
  the closest connection, stemming from unity of its contents even for different functions within 
  conflict of laws framework, should embrace not only territorial contacts of the exact contrac tual legal relation but also important substantive law considerations (including lex validatis 
  acknowledged by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Law;Volume 14; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the closest connection
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: escape clause
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: contracts conflict of laws
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: transboundary contractual relations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: international commercial contracts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: choice of applicable law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: lex validati
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The closest connection principle as escape clause for  contractual legal relations of international character
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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