El juego de las normas imperativas en el Reglamento Roma II sobre ley aplicable a las obligaciones no contractuales: límites a la aplicación de la lex causae

• Main Author: Javier Maseda Rodríguez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales (AEPDIRI) 2013-06-01
• Series: Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales
• Subjects: Overriding mandatory provisions; Domestic and EU provisions which cannot be derogated from by agreement; Normas materiales imperativas; Normas imperativas internas; Normas imperativas comunitarias
• Online Access: http://www.reei.org/index.php/revista/num25/articulos/juego-normas-imperativas-reglamento-roma-ii-sobre-ley-aplicable-obligaciones-contractuales-limites-aplicacion-ilex-causaei

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.