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There have been Brexit-related suggestions in some quarters that, because the UK is "leaving Europe", English contract law will be a less attractive option in international commerce as the chosen governing law of contracts. Actually, reason and experience indicates otherwise. English law has been the pre-eminent choice of governing law for international business contracts for decades, since long before the UK entered the EU.
9 March Draft Highlights, Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, pp 130
PART SIX, INSTITUTIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS TITLE I, CONSISTENT INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION [W] Art. 153, Jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning Parts Three and certain provisions of Part Five [W]TITLE III DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
"It is to be remembered that at the time this statute was enacted we had, by express provision, adopted the common law of England, and, with three exceptions, the statutes of that country passed prior to the fourth year of James the First, so far as they were applicable to our condition."
*I was looking for something else, Harris vs. Quinn (2014), an event that had me quite out of joint at the time, into Taft-Hartley, and RAYGUN (1981). So it goes, the hand-wringing, too little, too late. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Studs Terkel, AUDIO/EN Jim Paulei of PATCO discusses the air traffic controller's strike and describes a day on the job. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
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