Elsabe Schoeman

LLD, University of South Africa, with a thesis on:
Domicile and Jurisdiction as Criteria in External Conflict of Laws, 1997
LLB (cum laude), University of South Africa, 1985
BLC, University of Pretoria, 1982

Contact details
Building 803, room 315
17 Eden Crescent
Auckland

Phone: +64 9 923 8118
Email: e.schoeman@auckland.ac.nz

Available to students
Open door policy

Profile

Elsabe is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law. She teaches and researches in Conflict of Laws (Private International Law) with a special focus on jurisdiction in cross-border litigation, as well as choice of law in contract, tort and selected areas of family law. She has a doctorate in Private International Law, has written a monograph for the International Encyclopaedia of Laws (Private International Law) and was also awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to pursue her research interests in this field at the University of Cologne.

She has published extensively on a wide range of Conflict of Laws topics and has undertaken research at various international institutes, most notably the Institut für internationales und ausländisches Privatrecht (University of Cologne) and the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies (London University), and is a member of the Association of Attenders and Alumni of The Hague Academy of International Law.

Elsabe is the author of the first comprehensive, fully searchable and browseable electronic database (sponsored by the New Zealand Law Foundation) of scholarly writing on New Zealand conflict of laws/private international law in the areas of jurisdiction, choice of law and recognition and enforcement of judgments in international cross-border litigation: http://www.conflictz.auckland.ac.nz/

Currently, her research is focused on the response of third countries to European Union instruments in the area of civil and commercial cross-border litigation.

Special interests

• Jurisdiction in cross-border litigation
• Choice of law
• International contracts
• International torts
• Comparative conflicts
• Conflicts justice

Recent teaching

• LAW 475: European Commercial Litigation
• LAW 477: Conflict of Laws
• LAW 241: Law of Contract
• LAWPUBL 713: International Family Law (LLM)

Recent supervision topics

• Substance-procedure Dichotomy in International Tort Litigation
• Mandatory Statutes and Contractual Choice of Law Clauses
• The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
• A Reappraisal of Tort Choice of Law in New Zealand
• Proof of Foreign Law
  
  

Recent Research

SCHOEMAN, E. ‘Service Abroad without Leave: Taking Seaconsar Seriously’: New Zealand Business Law Quarterly 16(3), 343-351, 2010

SCHOEMAN, E.  'Rome II and the Substance-Procedure Dichotomy: Crossing the Rubicon', Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, (1), 80-93, 2010

SCHOEMAN, E., ANGELO, T.  'New Zealand National Report on Conflict of Laws: Conventions and their Reception in National Legal Systems' in Jorge Sánchez Cordero & Alfredo Sánchez Castañeda (ed), Congreso Temático de la Academia Internacional de Derecho Comparado (Thematic Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law), La incidencia del derecho uniforme en el derecho nacional. Límites y Posibilidades, Mexico City, 2009

SCHOEMAN, E., ROODT, H.C. Monograph on South African Private International Law in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws, The Hague, Kluwer Law International, 124pp, 2007

SCHOEMAN, E. ‘Service Abroad in Enforcement Proceedings’. NZLJ (November), 389-390, 393, 2007

SCHOEMAN, E. ‘Harding v Wealands: Substance v Procedure in the English Courts’. NZBLQ 13(1), 3-15, 2007

SCHOEMAN, E. ‘Renvoi: Throwing (and Catching) the Boomerang: Neilson v Overseas Projects Corporation of Victoria Ltd [2005] HCA 54’. UQLJ 25(1), 203-212, 2006

SCHOEMAN, E., TOBIN, R. ‘The New Zealand Accident Compensation Scheme: The Statutory Bar and the Conflict of Laws’. AJCL 53, 493-513, 2005

SCHOEMAN, E., TOBIN, R. ‘Asbestos, Australia and ACC’. NZLJ (December), 430-432, 2005

SCHOEMAN, E. ‘Good Faith in Conflict(s): The International Commercial Contract Dimension’ NZBLQ 10(4), 446-453, 2005

SCHOEMAN, E., TOBIN, R. ‘A Holiday in New Zealand: The Implications of New Zealand's Accident Compensation Scheme’. IPRax (Journal of the Institut für internationales und ausländisches Privatrecht at the University of Cologne) 25(4), 374-375, 2005

SCHOEMAN, E. ‘Lorentzen v Lydden: Dead and Buried?’. NZBLQ 10(4), 285-293, 2004

SCHOEMAN, E., MYBURGH, P. ‘Jurisdiction in Trans-National Cases’. NZLJ (October), 403-406, 2004

SCHOEMAN, E. ‘Tort Choice of Law in New Zealand: Recommendations for Reform’. NZLR (3) 537-561, 2004

SCHOEMAN, E. ‘The South African Conflict Rule for Proprietary Consequences of Marriage: Learning from the German Experience’. TSAR (Journal of South African Law) (1), 115-140, 2004

SCHOEMAN, E. ‘The South African Conflict Rule for Proprietary Consequences of Marriage: The Need for Reform’. IPRax (Journal of the Institut für internationales und ausländisches Privatrecht at the University of Cologne) 24(1), 65-66, 2004