Legal char­ac­ter­isa­tion in dis­putes in­volving a for­eign ele­ment

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

M. N. Abilova and A. A. Asyl­bekova ad­dress how char­ac­ter­isa­tion in­forms the de­term­in­a­tion of the ap­plic­able law in dis­putes in­volving a for­eign ele­ment. They con­sider its role in en­sur­ing that legal rules are cor­rectly un­der­stood and ap­plied.

Draw­ing on the basic char­ac­ter­isa­tion doc­trines de­veloped in private in­ter­na­tion­al law, the au­thors favour lex fori when de­term­in­ing the ap­plic­able law and lex causae when ap­ply­ing for­eign law. They also ana­lyse how Kaza­kh­stan's conflict-of-laws le­gis­la­tion reg­u­lates legal char­ac­ter­isa­tion.