1. Professor of European Union and Private International Law, University of Aberdeen. Adviser to the UK and Scottish Governments on Private International Law. Member of the Informal Working Group that prepared the way for the Hague Choice of Court Agreements Convention and of the Drafting Committee for that Convention. Visiting Scholar at the University of Southern Queensland School of Law when the symposium on the Hague Choice of Court Agreements Convention, at which this paper was first presented, was...