Rome Regulation I on Contractual Obligations

Order a phone from an online shop in Bengaluru and you never wonder which law applies. Now order the same phone from a shop in Paris, delivered to your flat in Kharghar, and accept terms that say the contract is governed by French law. Does a French clause take away the rights an Indian consumer would enjoy at home? European lawyers had to answer this for half a billion people, and they did it with a single regulation that every Member State applies the same way. Rome I is the model answer, and the syllabus wants you to know how it works.

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Rome I (Regulation (EC) No 593/2008) is the European Union's uniform code for the law applicable to contracts: parties may choose the law freely; absent choice, fixed rules and the characteristic-performance test apply; consumers and employees get special protection; overriding mandatory rules and public policy always survive.

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