The Forum Ne­ces­si­tatis Doc­trine in Com­par­at­ive Law and Turk­ish Law

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

The art­icle ad­dresses the doc­trine of forum ne­ces­si­tatis from a comparative-law per­spect­ive, ex­plain­ing how a court that would oth­er­wise lack jur­is­dic­tion in a dis­pute with a for­eign ele­ment may ex­cep­tion­ally assume jur­is­dic­tion so that the claimant’s right of access to court is not de­feated. It con­siders how the doc­trine is reg­u­lated or ap­plied in vari­ous na­tion­al sys­tems and in EU law, and then turns to Turk­ish law.