Written evidence to Justice Committee, Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006, Post-legislative Scrutiny

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Connection and coherence between and among European instruments in the private international law of obligations

This article considers points of connection and coherence between and among the Rome I Regulation, the Rome II Regulation, and Regulation 1215, and relevant predecessor instruments. The degree of consistency in aim, design and detail of conflict of laws rules is examined, vertically (between/among consecutive instruments) and horizontally (across cognate instruments). Symbiosis between instruments is explored, as is the interrelationship between choice of court and choice of law. Disadvantaged parties, and the cohesiveness of their treatment under the Regulations, receive particular attention

Divorcing Europe: reflections from a Scottish perspective on the implications of Brexit for cross-border divorce proceedings

This article addresses the implications of Brexit for cross-border divorce proceedings. It sets out the background to Brexit, and outlines the import of the Great Repeal Bill for private international law rules concerning matrimonial proceedings. The current constitutional position within the United Kingdom with regard to private international law is explored, and the existing law on cross-border divorce, as it applies to the different types of divorce proceedings which present in British courts, explained. The mapping of existing rules serves as an introduction to the main purpose of the article, which is to speculate and advise on post-Brexit regulation of cross-border matrimonial proceedings. To this end, the authors present a fictional dialogue which discusses the effect of converting Brussels II bis into UK law as part of the transfer of the acquis communitaire, and debates the respective merits, for the longer term, of the UK Government’s seeking to negotiate with the EU an agreement on private international law matters guaranteeing reciprocity, or of refining existing private international law rules contained in the Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973 and the Family Law Act 1986, so as to cater for ‘EU divorces’ in the same way as ‘non-EU’, international divorces

Brexit: the impact on judicial cooperation in civil matters having cross-border implications – a British perspective

Professors Crawford and Carruthers comment, from a British perspective, on the possible effects of Brexit upon European civil justice harmonisation measures, with particular reference to the Brussels I Recast, Brussels II bis, Rome I and Rome II Regulations

Brexit: the impact on judicial cooperation in civil matters having cross-border implications – a British perspective

Professors Crawford and Carruthers comment, from a British perspective, on the possible effects of Brexit upon European civil justice harmonisation measures, with particular reference to the Brussels I Recast, Brussels II bis, Rome I and Rome II Regulations

Integral correlation measures for multiparticle physics

We report on a considerable improvement in the technique of measuring multiparticle correlations via integrals over correlation functions. A modification of measures used in the characterization of chaotic dynamical sytems permits fast and flexible calculation of factorial moments and cumulants as well as their differential versions. Higher order correlation integral measurements even of large multiplicity events such as encountered in heavy ion collisons are now feasible. The change from ``ordinary'' to ``factorial'' powers may have important consequences in other fields such as the study of galaxy correlations and Bose-Einstein interferometry.Comment: 23 pages, 6 tar-compressed uuencoded PostScript figures appended, preprint TPR-92-4

Bose-Einstein source of intermittency in hadronic interactions

The multi-particle Bose-Einstein correlations are the source of ''intermittency'' in high energy hadronic collisions. The power-law like increase of factorial moments with decreasing bin size was obtained by complete event weighing technique with gaussian approximation of space-time particle emitting source shape. The value of source size parameter was found to be higher than the common one fitted with the help of the standard Handbury Brown-Twiss procedure.Comment: 12

Studies of multiplicity in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

In this talk I'll review the present status of charged particle multiplicity measurements from heavy-ion collisions. The characteristic features of multiplicity distributions obtained in Au+Au collisions will be discussed in terms of collision centrality and energy and compared to those of p+p collisions. Multiplicity measurements of d+Au collisions at 200 GeV nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy will also be discussed. The results will be compared to various theoretical models and simple scaling properties of the data will be identified.Comment: "Focus on Multiplicity" Internationsl Workshop on Particle Multiplicity in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions, Bari, Italy, June 17-19, 2003, 16 pages, 15 figure