Cross-Border Divorce Law

Máire Ní Shúilleabháin is a lecturer at the School of Law, University College Dublin where she teaches the conflict of laws, intellectual property law and commercial law. Her primary interests are in the family aspects of the conflict of laws and in trademark law. She has recently completed a PhD thesis at the University of Nottingham on the impact of Brussels IIbis Regulation (2201/2003) on matrimonial jurisdiction and recognition. She is qualified as a barrister (King's Inns, Dublin). She is also a graduate of University College, Dublin, Universitat Hannover and the University of Oxford.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Habitual Residence, Domicile and Other Connecting Factors ; 3. Personal, Temporal, Material and Geographic Scope of Brussels II bis ; 4. Jurisdictional Bases under Brussels II bis ; 5. Declining Jurisdiction under Brussels II bis ; 6. Recognition of Judgments under Brussels II bis ; 7. Conclusion

An outstanding analysis, well written and superbly documented - definitively a must have for all family law practitioners...Ms Shuilleabhain's masterly description of the European law of cross-border divorce, covers comprehensively all questions practitioners in the field could have. Her account of the law will prove to be a standard work for everyone with an interest, either academic or otherwise, in cross-border divorce matters