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• I. Parte generale.--II. I contratti.--III. Il diritto cambiario e il marittimo. Il fallimento.

• 1. Introduction.
• 2. Draft convention.
• 3. Commentary

• Pt. 1. La riforma valutaria italiana. Il nuovo ordinamento valutario e i vincoli fiscali : testi e commenti aggionati ul 30 novembre 1990 / di Ottorino Ascani
• Pt. 2. La realizzazione del mercato unico (Atti del Convegno) / a cura di Fausto Capelli e Ester Friz.

In this volume 21 experts from all over the world examine the UNIDROIT Principles from the perspective of their respective countries, focusing, among others, on the similarities and differences between the UNIDROIT Principles and domestic law, and the use of the UNIDROIT Principles in actual practice (contract negotiation, arbitration proceedings, model for law reform projects, etc.). These national reports are critically analysed in the General Report by Professor M.J. Bonell, Chairman of the Working Group for the preparation of the UNIDROIT Principles.
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• The international practice of law / Lucinda A. Low, Patrick M. Norton, and Daniel M. Drory
• International commercial transactions / Rona R. Mears
• International financing / James R. Silkenat, Roger D. Wiegley, and David S. Baxter
• Political risk insurance / Robert B. Shanks, Frederick E. Jenney, and John R. Zitko
• International payment methods / Gwendoline A. Griffiths and Patrick M. Norton
• Secured transactions / Gerold W. Libby
• Electronic commerce / Stewart A. Baker
• Intellectual property rights / David K.Y. Tang, Mary L. Williamson, and Frank X. Curci
• International antitrust / Michael H. Byowitz
• Securities law / Edward F. Greene
• U.S. taxation of international transactions / John R. Wilson and Laurence E. Nemirow
• Environmental law / Turner T. Smith Jr and Rod Hunter
• Customs law / Kenneth G. Weigel
• Export controls, sanctions, and antiboycott laws / Edward L. Rubinoff and Tamer A. Soliman
• The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act / O. Thomas Johnson Jr.
• Government procurement / Marshall J. Doke Jr.
• Trade remedies and benefit programs / Hal S. Shapiro and Myles S. Getlan
• Legalization of documents for use abroad / Peter H. Pfund
• International litigation / Gary B. Born
• International commercial arbitration / James H. Carter
• Creditors' rights and bankruptcy / Don S. Deamicis
• Foreign investment in the United States / Steven B. Pfeiffer
• Immigration / Angelo A. Paparelli and J. Ira

• Burkemper
• International labor and employment law / Donald C. Dowling Jr.
• Wills, trusts, estates, and related taxes / Barbara R. Hauser
• Family law / Gloria F. Dehart
• Selecting and working with foreign counsel / William M. Hannay.

A reference tool for lawyers facing international legal problems outside their own areas of expertise.
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• List of contributors
• Preface
• Table of cases
• Table of statutes
• 1. Consumers' access to justice: an introduction Charles E. F. Rickett and Thomas G. W. Telfer
• Part I. Perspectives on Consumers' Access to Justice: 2. Consumer redress and access to justice Iain Ramsay
• 3. Consumer access to justice in common law countries: a survey of the issues from a law and economics perspective Anthony J. Duggan
• 4. Rethinking consumer protection policy Michael J. Trebilcock
• Part II. Issues in Contract and Tort: 5. Standard form contracts in Europe and North America: one hundred years of unfair terms? Leone Niglia
• 6. BSE, CJD, mass infections and the 3rd US Restatement Jane Stapleton
• Part III. Services and the Consumer: 7. Services of general interest and European private law Thomas Wilhelmsson
• 8. The new Financial Ombudsman Service in the United Kingdom: has the second generation got it right? Rhoda James and Philip Morris
• 9. Economic appraisals of rule-making in the new society: why, how, and what does it mean? The challenge for the consumer Jenny Hamilton and Mik Wisniewski
• Part IV. Consumer Bankruptcy Law: 10. Access to the discharge in Canadian bankruptcy law and the new role of surplus income: an historical perspective Thomas G. W. Telfer
• 11. The death of consumer bankruptcy in the United States Charles Jordan Tabb
• Part V. Procedure and Process Issues: 12. Privatisation and power: dispute resolution for the internet Elizabeth G. Thornburg
• 13. Armageddon through aggregation? The use and abuse of class actions in international dispute resolution Richard O. Faulk
• Part VI. Conflict of Laws Issues: 14. Adapting international private law rules for electronic consumer contracts Lorna E. Gillies
• 15. Waving goodbye to conflict of laws? Recent developments in European Union consumer law Axel Halfmeier
• Index.
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Consumer protection law in the age of globalisation poses new challenges for policy-makers. This book highlights the difficulties of framing regulatory responses to the problem of consumers' access to justice in the new international economy. The growth of international consumer transactions in the wake of technological change and the globalisation of markets suggests that governments can no longer develop consumer protection law in isolation from the international legal arena. Leading scholars consider the broader theme of access to justice from socio-legal, law and economics perspectives. Topics include standard form contracts, the legal challenges posed by mass infections (such as mad-cow disease and CJD), ombudsman schemes, class actions, alternative dispute resolution, consumer bankruptcy, conflict of laws, and cross-border transactions. This book demonstrates that advancing and achieving access to justice for consumers proves to be a challenging, and sometimes elusive, task.
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• List of contributors
• Preface
• Table of cases
• Table of statutes
• 1. Consumers' access to justice: an introduction Charles E. F. Rickett and Thomas G. W. Telfer
• Part I. Perspectives on Consumers' Access to Justice: 2. Consumer redress and access to justice Iain Ramsay
• 3. Consumer access to justice in common law countries: a survey of the issues from a law and economics perspective Anthony J. Duggan
• 4. Rethinking consumer protection policy Michael J. Trebilcock
• Part II. Issues in Contract and Tort: 5. Standard form contracts in Europe and North America: one hundred years of unfair terms? Leone Niglia
• 6. BSE, CJD, mass infections and the 3rd US Restatement Jane Stapleton
• Part III. Services and the Consumer: 7. Services of general interest and European private law Thomas Wilhelmsson
• 8. The new Financial Ombudsman Service in the United Kingdom: has the second generation got it right? Rhoda James and Philip Morris
• 9. Economic appraisals of rule-making in the new society: why, how, and what does it mean? The challenge for the consumer Jenny Hamilton and Mik Wisniewski
• Part IV. Consumer Bankruptcy Law: 10. Access to the discharge in Canadian bankruptcy law and the new role of surplus income: an historical perspective Thomas G. W. Telfer
• 11. The death of consumer bankruptcy in the United States Charles Jordan Tabb
• Part V. Procedure and Process Issues: 12. Privatisation and power: dispute resolution for the internet Elizabeth G. Thornburg
• 13. Armageddon through aggregation? The use and abuse of class actions in international dispute resolution Richard O. Faulk
• Part VI. Conflict of Laws Issues: 14. Adapting international private law rules for electronic consumer contracts Lorna E. Gillies
• 15. Waving goodbye to conflict of laws? Recent developments in European Union consumer law Axel Halfmeier
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Consumer protection law in the age of globalisation poses new challenges for policy-makers. This book highlights the difficulties of framing regulatory responses to the problem of consumers' access to justice in the new international economy. The growth of international consumer transactions in the wake of technological change and the globalisation of markets suggests that governments can no longer develop consumer protection law in isolation from the international legal arena. Leading scholars consider the broader theme of access to justice from socio-legal, law and economics perspectives. Topics include standard form contracts, the legal challenges posed by mass infections (such as mad-cow disease and CJD), ombudsman schemes, class actions, alternative dispute resolution, consumer bankruptcy, conflict of laws, and cross-border transactions. This book demonstrates that advancing and achieving access to justice for consumers proves to be a challenging, and sometimes elusive, task.
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• List of contributors
• Preface
• Table of cases
• Table of statutes
• 1. Consumers' access to justice: an introduction Charles E. F. Rickett and Thomas G. W. Telfer
• Part I. Perspectives on Consumers' Access to Justice: 2. Consumer redress and access to justice Iain Ramsay
• 3. Consumer access to justice in common law countries: a survey of the issues from a law and economics perspective Anthony J. Duggan
• 4. Rethinking consumer protection policy Michael J. Trebilcock
• Part II. Issues in Contract and Tort: 5. Standard form contracts in Europe and North America: one hundred years of unfair terms? Leone Niglia
• 6. BSE, CJD, mass infections and the 3rd US Restatement Jane Stapleton
• Part III. Services and the Consumer: 7. Services of general interest and European private law Thomas Wilhelmsson
• 8. The new Financial Ombudsman Service in the United Kingdom: has the second generation got it right? Rhoda James and Philip Morris
• 9. Economic appraisals of rule-making in the new society: why, how, and what does it mean? The challenge for the consumer Jenny Hamilton and Mik Wisniewski
• Part IV. Consumer Bankruptcy Law: 10. Access to the discharge in Canadian bankruptcy law and the new role of surplus income: an historical perspective Thomas G. W. Telfer
• 11. The death of consumer bankruptcy in the United States Charles Jordan Tabb
• Part V. Procedure and Process Issues: 12. Privatisation and power: dispute resolution for the internet Elizabeth G. Thornburg
• 13. Armageddon through aggregation? The use and abuse of class actions in international dispute resolution Richard O. Faulk
• Part VI. Conflict of Laws Issues: 14. Adapting international private law rules for electronic consumer contracts Lorna E. Gillies
• 15. Waving goodbye to conflict of laws? Recent developments in European Union consumer law Axel Halfmeier
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Consumer protection law in the age of globalisation poses new challenges for policy-makers. This book highlights the difficulties of framing regulatory responses to the problem of consumers' access to justice in the new international economy. The growth of international consumer transactions in the wake of technological change and the globalisation of markets suggests that governments can no longer develop consumer protection law in isolation from the international legal arena. Leading scholars consider the broader theme of access to justice from socio-legal, law and economics perspectives. Topics include standard form contracts, the legal challenges posed by mass infections (such as mad-cow disease and CJD), ombudsman schemes, class actions, alternative dispute resolution, consumer bankruptcy, conflict of laws, and cross-border transactions. This book demonstrates that advancing and achieving access to justice for consumers proves to be a challenging, and sometimes elusive, task.
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• List of contributors
• Preface
• Table of cases
• Table of statutes
• 1. Consumers' access to justice: an introduction Charles E. F. Rickett and Thomas G. W. Telfer
• Part I. Perspectives on Consumers' Access to Justice: 2. Consumer redress and access to justice Iain Ramsay
• 3. Consumer access to justice in common law countries: a survey of the issues from a law and economics perspective Anthony J. Duggan
• 4. Rethinking consumer protection policy Michael J. Trebilcock
• Part II. Issues in Contract and Tort: 5. Standard form contracts in Europe and North America: one hundred years of unfair terms? Leone Niglia
• 6. BSE, CJD, mass infections and the 3rd US Restatement Jane Stapleton
• Part III. Services and the Consumer: 7. Services of general interest and European private law Thomas Wilhelmsson
• 8. The new Financial Ombudsman Service in the United Kingdom: has the second generation got it right? Rhoda James and Philip Morris
• 9. Economic appraisals of rule-making in the new society: why, how, and what does it mean? The challenge for the consumer Jenny Hamilton and Mik Wisniewski
• Part IV. Consumer Bankruptcy Law: 10. Access to the discharge in Canadian bankruptcy law and the new role of surplus income: an historical perspective Thomas G. W. Telfer
• 11. The death of consumer bankruptcy in the United States Charles Jordan Tabb
• Part V. Procedure and Process Issues: 12. Privatisation and power: dispute resolution for the internet Elizabeth G. Thornburg
• 13. Armageddon through aggregation? The use and abuse of class actions in international dispute resolution Richard O. Faulk
• Part VI. Conflict of Laws Issues: 14. Adapting international private law rules for electronic consumer contracts Lorna E. Gillies
• 15. Waving goodbye to conflict of laws? Recent developments in European Union consumer law Axel Halfmeier
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Consumer protection law in the age of globalisation poses new challenges for policy-makers. This book highlights the difficulties of framing regulatory responses to the problem of consumers' access to justice in the new international economy. The growth of international consumer transactions in the wake of technological change and the globalisation of markets suggests that governments can no longer develop consumer protection law in isolation from the international legal arena. Leading scholars consider the broader theme of access to justice from socio-legal, law and economics perspectives. Topics include standard form contracts, the legal challenges posed by mass infections (such as mad-cow disease and CJD), ombudsman schemes, class actions, alternative dispute resolution, consumer bankruptcy, conflict of laws, and cross-border transactions. This book demonstrates that advancing and achieving access to justice for consumers proves to be a challenging, and sometimes elusive, task.
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• Preface
• I CONFLICT OF LAWS
• (i) Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Agency 1978
• (ii) Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1986
• (iii) Rome Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations 1980
• (iv) First Protocol on the Interpretation by the Court of Justice of the European Communities of the Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations 1988
• (v) Second Protocol on the Court of Justice of the European Communities Certain Powers to interpret the Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations 1988
• (vi) Inter-American Convention on the Law Applicable to International Contracts 1990
• II INTERNATIONAL LAW
• (vii) Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969
• III INTERNATIONAL SALES
• (viii) UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1980
• (ix) ICC Incoterms 2000
• IV AGENCY AND DISTRIBUTION
• (x) First Company Directive (68/151/EEC)
• (xi) EC Directive on Commercial Agents (86/653/EEC)
• (xii) UNIDROIT Convention on Agency in the International Sale of Goods 1983
• (xiii) UNIDROIT Model Franchise Disclosure Law 2002
• V INTERNATIONAL BANK PAYMENT UNDERTAKINGS
• (xiv) UCP 500
• (xv) UCP 600
• (xvi) ICC Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees 1992
• (xvii) International Standby Practices 1998 (ISP98)
• (viii) UN Convention on Independent Guarantees and Stand-By Letters of Credit 1995
• (xix) ICC Uniform Rules for Contract Bonds 1993
• VI FINANCIAL LEASING
• (xx) UNIDROIT Convention on International Leasing 1988
• VII RECEIVABLES LEASING
• (xxi) UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring1988
• (xxii) UN Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade 2001
• VIII INTERNATIONAL SECURED TRANSACTIONS
• (xxiii) Brussels Convention on Maritime Liens and Mortgages 1926
• (xxiv) Brussels Convention on Arrest of Sea-Going Ships 1952
• (xxv) Geneva Convention on Maritime Liens and mortgages 1993
• (xxvi) International Convention on Arrest of Ships 1999
• (xxvii) Rome Convention on Precautionary Arrest of Aircraft 1933
• (xxviii) Geneva Convention on Recognition of Rights in Aircraft 1948
• (xxix) Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment 2001
• (xxx) Aircraft Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment 2001
• IX TRANSACTIONS IN SECURITIES
• (xxxi) EC Directive on Settlement Finality in Payment and Security Settlements Systems (98/26/EC)
• (xxxii) EC Directive on Financial Collateral Arrangements (2002/47/EC)
• (xxxiii) Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in respect of Securities Held with an Intermediary 2002
• X INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN RESTATEMENTS OF CONTRACT LAW
• (xxxiv) UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts 2004
• (xxxxv) Principles of European Contract Law
• XI CROSS BORDER INSOLVENCY
• (xxxvi) UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency 1997
• (xxxvii) European Union Convention on Insolvency Proceedings 1995
• (xxxviii) Council Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings (1346/2000/EC)
• (xxxix) Council Regulation Amending Lists of Insolvency Proceedings (603/2005/EC)
• (xl) Council Regulation Amending Lists of Insolvency Proceedings (694/2006/EC)
• XII INTERNATIONAL CIVIL PROCEDURE
• (xli) European Convention on State Immunity 1972
• (xlii) United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property 2005
• (xliii) Council Regulation on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgment in civil and commercial matters (44/2001/EEC)
• (xliv) MERCOSUR/CMC/DEC No. 05/92
• (xlv) MERCOSUR/CMC/DEC No. 07/02 Enmienda Al Protocolo De Cooperacion Y Asistencia Jurisdiccional En Materia Civil, Comercial, Laboral Y Administrativa Entre Los Estados Partes Del Mercosur
• (xlvi) Buenos Aires Protocol on International Jurisdiction in Contractual Matters 1994
• (xlvii) Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements 2005
• (xlviii) Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters
• (xlix) Council Regulation on the Service in the Member States of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (1348/2000/EEC)
• (l) Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters 1970
• COUNCIL REGULATION ON COOPERATION BETWEEN COURTS OF THE MEMBER STATES IN THE TAKING OF EVIDENCE IN CIVIL OR COMMERCIAL MATTERS (1206/2001/EEC)
• (lii) ALI/UNIDROIT Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure 2004
• XIII INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION
• (liii) New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards 1958
• (lix) Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration 1975
• (lx) UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration 1985
• (lxi) UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules 1976
• (lxii) The ICC Rules of Arbitration 1998
• (lxiii) Acuerdo Sobre Arbitaje Comercial International Del MERCOSUR No. 03/98.
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This companion to Transnational Commercial Law: Text, Cases and Materials contains up-to-date primary materials for students without linking commentary. This compilation of instruments covers areas such as treaty law, contracts, electronic commerce, international sales, agency and distribution, international credit transfers and bank payment undertakings, international secured transactions, cross-border insolvency, securities settlement and securities collateral, conflict of laws, civil procedure, and commercial arbitration.
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• PART I: GENERAL PRINCIPLES
• 1. The nature, history and sources of commercial law
• 2. The conflict of laws in commercial transactions
• 3. International law as it affects private law conventions governing cross-border commercial transactions
• 4. Comparative law and its relevance to transnational commercial law
• 5. The harmonization of commercial law
• instruments and institutions
• 6. The harmonization process
• PART II: A VIEW THROUGH ILLUSTRATIVE CONTRACTS AND HARMONIZING INSTRUMENTS
• 7. International sales and the Vienna Sales Convention
• 8. Agency and distribution
• 9. International bank payment undertakings
• 10. Financial Leasing: The UNIDROIT Convention and the draft UNIDROIT Model Law
• 11. Receivables financing: The UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring and the UN Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade
• 12. International interests in mobile equipment and the Cape Town Convention and Aviation Protocol: adding a new dimension to international law-making
• 13. Transactions in securities
• PART III: HARMONIZATION OF GENERAL CONTRACT LAW
• 14. Restatements of contract law
• PART IV: TRANSNATIONAL INSOLVENCY
• 15. Harmonization and co-operation in cross-border insolvency
• ART V: INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION
• 16. International civil procedure
• 17. International commercial arbitration
• PART VI: RECURRENT ISSUES OF HARMONIZATION
• 18. The sphere of application of a convention: The role of the conflict of laws: determining the connecting factor
• co-existence and conflicts of instruments
• 19. Uniformity in transnational commercial law
• 20. Getting to yes: Practical and political problems of harmonization.
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Text, Cases and Materials on Transnational Commercial Law brings together all the major transnational commercial law instruments relating to commercial contracts in a logical and accessible way. The authors provide students with an extensive discussion on the theoretical issues raised by the law. The text examines the emergence of transnational commercial law, its nature and sources and the method by which harmonization is achieved and some of the key problems involved. The text is supported by a companion web site providing updates.
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• Tha UNIDROIT Principlas of International Commercial Contracts:A Governing Law?; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS;
• CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION; I. THE UNIDROIT PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS: AN OVERVIEW; 1. Subject Matter and Scope of the First Edition of the UNIDROIT Principles; 2. The Method Adopted by the Working Group; 3. UNIDROIT Principles 2004-The Second Edition of theUNIDROIT Principles of International CommercialContracts; 4. Content and Structure of the UNIDROIT Principles (2004); II. THE UNIDROIT PRINCIPLES-A RESTATEMENT OFLAW.

• III. RESTATEMENT OF LAW AND CONFLICT OF LAWSIV. COURSE OF THE STUDY; CHAPTER 2-THE UNIDROIT PRINCIPLESBEFORE ARBITRAL TRIBUNALS; I. THE DEBATE ABOUT THE LEX MERCATORIA;
• 1. Courts' Recognition of Arbitral Awards Based on theLex Mercatoria;
• 2. Statutory Recognition of a Choice of the LexMercatoria;
• 3. The Notion of ""Rules of Law""; II. CHOICE OF THE UNIDROIT PRINCIPLES OFINTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS;
• 1. Arbitral Practice;
• 2. The UNIDROIT Principles' Test in EnforcementProceedings; III. SPECIFIC CHOICE-OF-LAW CLAUSES AND THERELEVANCE OF THE UNIDROIT PRINCIPLES.

• 1. Exclusive, Express Choice of the UNIDROIT Principles asthe Law Governing the Contracta. Article 1
• .6: ""Issues Within the Scope of the Principlesbut Not Expressly Settled by Them Are as Far asPossible to Be Settled in Accordance With TheirUnderlying General Principles""; i. Applicability of Article 1.6(2); ii. ""Within the Scope of the Principles""; A. Example: Set-Off Claims; B. Limitation of Actions (Prescription); C. Conditions and Joint v. Several Liability; iii. The Methodology Underlying Article 1.6(2) in Identifying andDeriving General Principles and Specific Rules.

• B. Issues Beyond the Scope of the Principles: GeneralPrinciples Underlying the UNIDROIT Principles NotIdentifiablei. The Doctrine of a Negative Choice of Law by the Parties; ii. Choice of the UN/DROIT Principles and the Doctrine of a NegativeChoice of Law;
• 2. The UNIDROIT Principles and the Parties' Reference to the Lex Mercatoria, General Principles of Law, GeneralPrinciples of Equity, or the Like; a. Overview of Doctrine and Arbitral Case Law; b. Analysis of Doctrine and Arbitral Practice; i. Reference to the Lex Mercatoria.

• Ii. Reference to General Principles of Law, General Principles of Equity, or the Likec. Conceptual Approach: A Proposal; i. Lex Mercatoria; ii. General Principles of Law or Equity; iii. Bridging the Gap Between the Two Concepts Through the General Principles of Law's Corrective Function; iv. Conclusions;
• 3. The UNIDROIT Principles and an Exclusive Choice of a Domestic Law by the Parties; IV. THE RELEVANCE OF THE UNIDROIT PRINCIPLES ABSENT A CHOICE OF LAW;
• 1. Application of ""Transnational Law"" Before Publication of the UNIDROIT Principles; a. Recognition in Arbitral Practice.

The Unidroit Principles are a restatement of the law applicable to international commercial contracts that have been developed on the basis of an innovative comparison of the leading contract laws. As such, their authority rests on the standing of UNIDROIT, the institution responsible for their preparation, and on the quality of the rules they propose. This book provides a comprehensive in-depth analysis of the foundations of, and justifications for, an application of the Unidroit Principles. Its conclusion-that the Unidroit Principles may constitute a true governing law to be recognized by arbitral tribunals and domestic courts alike-will further contribute to the worldwide success of the Unidroit Principles.
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• The UNIDROIT principles before arbitral tribunals
• The UNIDROIT principles before state courts
• The limits of the UNIDROIT principles' application
• Summary and conclusions.

The Unidroit Principles are a restatement of the law applicable to international commercial contracts that have been developed on the basis of an innovative comparison of the leading contract laws. As such, their authority rests on the standing of UNIDROIT, the institution responsible for their preparation, and on the quality of the rules they propose. This book provides a comprehensive in-depth analysis of the foundations of, and justifications for, an application of the Unidroit Principles. Its conclusion-that the Unidroit Principles may constitute a true governing law to be recognized by arbitral tribunals and domestic courts alike-will further contribute to the worldwide success of the Unidroit Principles.
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• Introduction to the Structures and Legal Relationships in International Trade
• Agents in International Trade Transactions
• Terms and Conditions in the Sale of Goods
• International Sale of Goods
• Remedies in International Sales
• Bills of Lading
• Carriage of Goods by Sea
• Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971
• Marine Insurance for Cargo
• Payment and Finance for International Trade
• Civil and Commercial Jurisdiction
• The Contract's Applicable Law
• Recognising and Enforcing Foreign Awards
• Alternative Dispute Resolution.
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Law of International Trade is now a well-established textbook on this complicated and fast moving area of law. This book offers the reader a comprehensive and solid explanation of law and practice with an analysis of the theoretical and doctrinal issues, thus, making it an ideal textbook for students on both academic and professional courses. It is also an invaluable resource for practitioners and those engaged in international commercial operations, such as shipping, trade finance, cargo insurance, cross border litigation, international sales, etc.
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• No. 1 (Mar. 29, 2010)
• no. 2 (April 16, 2012)
• no. 3 (April 16, 2013)
• no. 4. (April 17, 2015)
• no. 5. (March 30, 2017)
• no. 6 (April 6, 2018).

• Preamble
• General provisions
• Formation and authority of agents
• Validity
• Interpretation
• Content, third party rights, and conditions
• Performance
• Non-performance
• Set-off -- Assignment of rights, transfer of obligations, assignment of contracts
• Limitation periods
• Plurality of obligors and of obligees.

• Introduction
• Initial disequilibrium
• Supervening disequilibrium
• Conclusion.

• Preface
• I TREATY LAW
• A. Introductory Text
• B. Instruments
• Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
• II INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN RESTATEMENTS OF CONTRACT LAW
• A. Introductory Text
• B. Instruments
• UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts
• Principles of European Contract Law
• III ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
• A. Introductory Text
• B. Instruments
• UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce
• UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Signatures 2001
• EC Directive on Electronic Commerce 2000
• EC Directive on Electronic Signatures 1999
• CMI Rules for Electronic Bills of Lading 1990
• IV INTERNATIONAL SALES
• A. Introductory Text
• B. Instruments
• Vienna Convention on Contracts for the Internaional Sale of Goods
• ICC Incoterms (2010 version)
• V AGENCY AND DISTRIBUTION
• A. Introductory Text
• B. Instruments
• The First Company Directive (EC)
• The EC Directive on Commercial Agents
• UNIDROIT Model Franchise Disclosure Law
• VI INTERNATIONAL CREDIT TRANSFERS AND BANK PAYMENT UNDERTAKINGS
• A. Introductory Text
• B. Instruments
• UNCITRAL Model Law on International Credit Transfers 1992
• ICC Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (UCP 600)
• Supplement to UCP 500 for Electronic Presentation (eUCP) Version 1.0
• ICC Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees (2010 revision)
• International Standby Practices 98 (ISP 98)
• 1995 UN Convention on Independent Guarantees and Standby Letters of Credit
• ICC Uniform Rules for Contract Bonds 1993
• VII INTERNATIONAL SECURED TRANSACTIONS
• A. Introductory Text
• B. Instruments
• ERBD Model Law on Secured Transactions
• OAS Model Law on Secured Transactions
• Brussels Convention on Maritime Liens and Mortgages 1926
• Brussels Convention on Arrest of SeaGoing Ships 1952
• Geneva Convention on Maritime Liens and Mortgages 1993
• Geneva Convention on Arrest of Ships 1999
• Rome Convention on Precautionary Arrest of Aircraft 1993
• Geneva Convention on Recognition of Rights in Aircraft 1948
• UNIDROIT Convention on International Financial Leasing 1998
• Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Aircraft Protocol thereto 2001
• Luxembourg Protocol to the Cape Town Convention
• UNIDROIT Model Law on leasing
• UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring 1988
• UN Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade
• VIII CROSS BORDER INSOLVENCY
• A. Introductory Text
• B. Instruments
• European Convention on Certain International Aspects of Bankruptcy 1990x
• UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross Border Insolvency
• Council Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 on Insolvency Proceedings
• IX Securities Custody, Clearing and Settlement and Securities Collateral
• IX SECURITIES CUSTODY, CLEARING AND SETTLEMENT AND SECURITIES COLLATERAL
• A. Introductory Text
• B. Instruments
• EC Settlement Finality Directive 1998, 98/26/EC
• EC Directive on Financial Collateral Arrangements 2002, 2002/47/EC
• Directive 2009/44/EC amending the Settlement Finality Directive and the Financial Collateral Arrangements Directive
• UNIDROIT (Geneva) Convention on Substantive Rules for Intermediated Securities, 2009
• X CONFLICT OF LAWS
• A. Introductory Text
• B. Materials
• Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Agency 1978
• Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1986
• EC Regulation on Contractual Obligations (Rome I)
• InterAmerican Convention on the Law Applicable to International Contracts 1990
• Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities Held with an Intermediary 2002
• Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1980
• XI INTERNATIONAL CIVIL PROCEDURE
• A. Introductory Text
• B. Instruments
• European Convention on State Immunity
• UN Convention on jurisdictional immunity 2005
• Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters
• MERCOSUR/CMC/DEC Nro. 05/92
• MERCOSUR/CMC/DEC Nro. 07/02 Enmienda Al Protocolo De Cooperacion Y Asistencia Jurisdiccional En Materia Civil, Comercial, Laboral Y Administrativa Entre Los Estados Partes Del Mercosur
• Buenos Aires Protocol on International Jurisdiction in Contractual Matters
• Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Matters, 1994
• Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters
• Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters, 1970
• Council Regulation (EC) No. 1206/2001 on Cooperaration between Courts of the Member States in the Taking of Evidence in Civil or Commercial Matters
• ALI/UNIDROIT Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure
• Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements
• XII INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION
• A. Introductory Text
• B. Instruments
• Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards
• InterAmerican Convention on International Commercial Arbitration
• UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration
• UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules
• The International Chamber of Commerce Rules of Arbitration 2111
• Acuerdo Sobre Arbitraje Comercial Internacional Del MERCOSUR
• XIII CARRIAGE OF GOODS
• A. Introductory Text
• B. Instruments
• Warsaw/Montreal Convention
• Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road
• Hague-Visby Rules
• 2008 UN Convention on Contracts for the Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea (Rotterdam Rules)
• Hague Rules, 1924
• INDEX.
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Transnational commercial law represents the outcome of work undertaken to harmonize national laws affecting domestic and cross-border transactions and is upheld by a diverse spectrum of instruments. Now in its second edition, this authoritative work brings together the major instruments in this field, dividing them into thirteen groups: Treaty Law, Contracts, Electronic Commerce, International Sales, Agency and Distribution, International Credit Transfers and Bank Payment Undertakings, International Secured Transactions, Cross-Border Insolvency, Securities Custody, Clearing and Settlement and Securities Collateral, Conflict of Laws, Civil Procedure, Commercial Arbitration, and a new section on Carriage of Goods. Each group of instruments is preceded by linking text which provides important context by identifying the key instruments in each group, discussing their purposes and relationships, and explaining the major provisions of each instrument, thus setting them in their commercial context. This volume is unique in providing the full text of international conventions, including the preamble - which is important for interpretation - and the final clauses and any annexes. In addition, each instrument is accompanied by a complete list of dates of signature and ratification by all contracting states, all easily navigated through the detailed tables of contents which precedes it. This fully-indexed work provides an indispensable guide for the practitioner or academic to the primary transnational commercial law instruments.
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• Introduction
• Le recours implicite aux règles nationales de conflit de lois
• L'adoption explicite de règles communes de conflit de lois
• L'applicabilité directe des règles internationalement impératives du droit ohada fondée sur la méthode des lois de police
• L'applicabilité indirecte du droit matériel ohada fondée sur l'entremise des règles de conflit de lois
• Conclusion générale.

• La résolution des conflits en matière de commerce à travers les archives du Parlement au XIIIe siècle / Jean Hilaire
• Conflict Resolution at a Medieval English Fair / Stephen E. Sachs
• Die Erwartungen mittelalterlicher Kaufleute an Gerichtsverfahren : Hansische Privilegien als Indikator / Albrecht Cordes
• International Trade Disputes and ius commune : legal arguments on the 'Gdańsk Issue' during the Hanseatic Embassy to London in 1553 / Alain Wijffels
• Brüder unter sich : die Handelsgesellschaft Brentano vor Gericht : elemente privater Konfliktlösung im Reichskammergerichtsprozess / Anja Amend-Traut
• Formen der Konfliktlösung im Handels- und Seerecht in Nürnberg, Hamburg und Leipzig zwischen 1500 und 1800 / Karl-Otto Scherner
• Le naufrage, un événement conflictuel au XVIIIe siècle : L'exemple de l'Amirauté de Cornouaille / Pierrick Pourchasse
• Mer et droit à Dunkerque ou l'impossible conciliation (XVIIe-XIXe siècles) / Christian Pfister-Langanay
• Le contentieux du commerce des toiles, du tribunal des manufactures au tribunal de commerce : L'exemple de Quintin (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles) / Thierry Hamon
• Les modalitès de reglement des conflits commerciaux entre la France et les Etats-Unis au tournant du XIXe siècle : Un révélateur du fonctionnement des réseaux marchands / Silvia Marzagalli
• Seehandelsrechtliche Streitigkeiten vor dem Oberappellationsgericht der vier freien Städte Deutschlands (1820-1848) / Peter Oestmann
• Handelsrecht durch Höchstgerichtsbarkeit : die Entstehung des Bundes- bzw. Reichsoberhandelsgerichts / Ulrike Müßig
• La résolution des conflits en droit maritime : Le choix entre une transaction amiable, un arbitrage ou du contentieux illustré au travers l'abordage de la 'Ville de Victoria' (1886-1889) / Estelle Rothweiler née Réhault
• La résolution des conflits commerciaux d'après les conférences régionales des juges consulaires : L'exemple de la 1ère Conférence régionale de Riom en 1899 / Florent Garnier
• Konfliktprävention durch Vertrag : Geistiges Eigentum und internationaler Handel um 1900 / Louis Pahlow
• Les deux rêves du commerce maritime au premier XXe siècle : Arbitrage social et commercial chez les Armateurs de France (1891-1950) / Christian Borde
• Kurzbiografien der Autoren.

• Funktionalität und Legitimität des Gemeinsamen Europäischen Kaufrechts : eine Einführung / Tobias Pinkel, Christoph U. Schmid und Josef Falke
• Von der Gesellschaftsverfassung zum privatrechtlichen Bastelforum? Zur Legitimität des Kommissionsentwurfs für ein Europäisches Kaufrecht / Christoph U. Schmid
• Notwendigkeit und Legitimation einer EU-Kaufrechtskodifikation für den grenüberschreitenden Handel / Björn Hoops, LL.B.
• Art. 114 AEUV als Rechtsgrundlage der Verordnung über ein Gemeinsames Europäisches Kaufrecht / Anna-Carina Hilscher
• Regelungsinnovation im Europäischen Vertragsrecht : Entwicklungsdynamik eines optionalen Instruments und seiner Alternativen / Florian Möslein
• Das Gemeinsame Europäische Kaufrecht : cui bono? / Bernd Seifert
• Reflexive Contract Governance in der EU Privatrechtsvereinheitlichung oder Koordinationdurch Soft Law? / Norbert Reich
• Maßnahmen zur Förderung des GEKR : im Fahrwasser des UN-Kaufrechts zum Erfolg? / Olaf Meyer
• Die Rücknahme von Angeboten im Verordnungsentwurf für ein Gemeinsames Europäisches Kaufrecht / Jens Richter
• Vorvertragliche Informationspflichten bei Verbraucherverträgen im Gemeinsamen Europäischen Kaufrecht / Daniela Schmidt, LL.M.
• Die Wahl des Gemeinsamen Europäischen Kaufrechts : eine kritische Betrachtung der Anwendungsvoraussetzungen und Rehctswahlvorschriften im Kommissionsentwurf / Tobias Pinkel.

• UNCITRAL model law on cross-border insolvency
• Guide to enactment and interpretation of the UNCITRAL model law on cross-border insolvency.

The publication includes a new Guide to Enactment and Interpretation of the Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency that provides more information and guidance on the interpretation and application of selected aspects of the Model Law, in particular the concept of the debtor's centre of main interests and the factors relevant to rebuttal of the presumption in article 16(3), the use of the word insolvency in the Model Law and various elements of the definition of foreign proceeding in article 2. The revisions do not in any way affect the text of the Model Law as drafted.

• Preface
• Foreword by Cyril Emery
• 1. The Roots and Traces of the CISG in the Draft of a Common European Sales Law
• 2. Reading Article 4 with Article 7 Glasses: Shaping the CISG's Material Scope
• 3. Survey of Recent U.S. Cases Dealing with the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)
• 4. The 'Swiss Proposal' on Future Work on International Contract Law - Building on Sandy Soil?
• 5. Emotional Non-Conformity in the International Sale of Goods, Particularly in Relation to CSR-Policies and Codes of Conduct
• 6. The Validity of International Sales Contracts: Irrelevance of the 'Validity Exception' in Article 4 Vienna Sales Convention and a Novel Approach to Determining the Convention's Scope
• 7. Beyond the CISG.
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This book explores how the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) interacts with non-uniform domestic laws, international laws and soft laws in jurisdictions around the world. It covers topics as diverse as: recent US federal court encounters with mthe CISG; roots and traces of the CISG in the Common European Sales Law (CESL); and potential coverage of 'emotional defects' by the CISG. Other chapters pose a novel approach to determining the CISG's scope or look beyond the CISG to future developments and directions. This volume is sure to provide food for thought for anyone advising on or interested in international commercial transactions, and is a valuable addition to the collections of academics and practitioners alike.
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• Introduction / Stefan Vogenauer
• General provisions
• Formation and authority of agents
• Validity
• Interpretation
• Content, third party rights and conditions
• Performance
• Non-performance
• Set-off
• Assignment of rights, transfer of obligations, assignment of contracts
• Limitation periods
• Plurality of obligors and of obligees.

This new edition of the leading commentary on the Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC) has been updated to include the 26 additional provisions brought in by the PICC 2010. The text on the older provisions has been updated in order to draw together and comment on recent case-law and legal writing. This book provides commentary on the substantive rules on contracts with a comprehensive analysis of each provision, and relevant case law, and compares national provisions with the PICC. The topics of conditions, illegality and plurality of obligors and obligees are covered for the first time in this new edition. This book is an essential reference source for lawyers wishing to understand the rules governing international contracts and how to apply the principles in practice. It is an indispensable tool for all lawyers and scholars working with international commercial contracts.
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• PART I: GENERAL PRINCIPLES
• PART II: A VIEW THROUGH ILLUSTRATIVE CONTRACTS AND HARMONIZING INSTRUMENTS
• PART III: HARMONIZATION OF GENERAL CONTRACT LAW
• PART IV: TRANSNATIONAL INSOLVENCY
• PART V: INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION
• PART VI: RECCURENT ISSUES OF HARMONIZATION.
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When the first edition of this student work was published some eight years ago transnational commercial law, introduced as a postgraduate course at the University of Oxford in 1995, was taught at a relatively small number of law schools. Since then the subject has blossomed and is now taught at law schools around the world. Focused on the products and processes of the harmonization of law relating to international commercial transactions, the book is an invaluable resource for students in this field. In this new edition the work has been completely revised and updated, covering a number of new or substantially revised international instruments. In addition four new chapters have been added by specialist contributors dealing with regional harmonization, carriage of goods by sea, transactions in securities and the relationship between international conventions and national law. The authority of the text is enhanced by the fact that all the authors have played leading roles in the drafting and development of many of the instruments examined in the work.
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• Choice and regulatory competition / V. Van Den Eeckhout
• Party autonomy in international family relationships : a research agenda / P. Wautelet
• Corporate mobility in the European Union : a flash in the pan?, an empirical study of the success of lawmaking and regulatory competition / W.-G. Ringe
• Corporate mobility in the European Union : an analysis of Ringe's empirical research on the success of law making and regulatory competition / S. Rammeloo
• Private actors as norm-setters through choice-of-law : the limits of regulatory competition / V. Mak
• Private norm-setting in family law, more specifically : private norm-setting amongst religious communities in family law issues / S. Rutten
• Enchained marriages : is there a way out? / F. van der Velden
• An introduction to alternative dispute resolution (ADR) for consumers in Europe / N. Creutzfeldt
• Critical remarks on the ADR Directive / C. Cauffman
• Normative frameworks in commercial dispute resolution : the role of legal and non-legal norms in mediation and adjudication / N. Kornet
• Law or social ordering : a choice for commercial parties in dispute resolution? : a comment on Kornet / A. Beckers.

"In numerous fields of law, ranging from family law to company law, private actors increasingly set their own rules, revert to private enforcement of those rules and choose the applicable law. Within each field this tendency has already been scrutinised. Until now, however, few attempts have been made to look at these phenomena together with a view to arriving at conclusions that go beyond one specific field. This book is a first attempt to fill this gap. It is relevant for scholars and practitioners working in the individual fields of law covered (private international law, company law, family law, consumer law and commercial law) as well as for scholars and policy makers trying to grasp the overall nature of the increasing privatisation of the law."-- Back cover.

• Preamble (purpose of the principles)
• General provisions
• Formation and authority of agents
• Validity
• Interpretation
• Content, third party rights and conditions
• Performance
• Non-performance
• Set-off
• Assignment of rights, transfer of obligations, assignment of contracts
• Limitation periods
• Plurality of obligors and of obligees

• Volume 1. Civil laws
• volume 2. Commercial laws
• volume 3. Public law and private international law.

• Reflections on the harmonisation of commercial law
• International restatements of contract and English contract law
• International restatements and national law
• Contract and commercial law : the logic and limits of harmonisation
• The protection of interests in movables in transnational commercial law
• Insularity or leadership? : the role of the United Kingdom in the harmonisation of commercial law
• The treatment of intangible assets under the Cape Town Convention and protocols
• From acorn to oak tree : the development of the Cape Town Convention and protocols
• The priority rules under the Cape Town Convention and protocols
• Battening down your security interests : how the shipping industry can benefit from the UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment
• The power to dispose under the Cape Town Convention and aircraft protocol
• Abstract payment undertakings and the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce
• Security entitlements as collateral and the conflict of laws
• The Hague Convention on intermediated securities
• The Cape Town Convention and protocols and the conflict of laws
• Private commercial law conventions and public and private international law : the radical approach of the Cape Town Convention 2001 and its protocols
• The assignment of pure intangibles in the conflict of laws
• Usage and its reception in transnational commercial law
• A new international lex mercatoria?
• Rule, practice, and pragmatism in transnational commercial law
• Is the lex mercatoria autonomous?
• The role of lex loci arbitri in international commercial arbitration
• The adaptation of English law to international commercial arbitration
• Litigation or arbitration? : the influence of the dispute resolution procedure on substantive rights
• The end of an era : a tribute to Jacob Ziegel.

"For over 40 years Professor Sir Roy Goode QC has been involved in the preparation of international instruments, working with the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law, the Hague Conference of Private International Law and the International Chamber of Commerce. The essays selected for this volume, written over the course of Sir Roy's career, offer a unique insight into the development of transnational commercial law, combining close theoretical study with an understanding of the practical relevance and application of the principles under discussion. Encompassing a range of topics, such as the processes and products of international harmonisation, comparative law and the conflict of laws, and placing a particular emphasis on the policies and problems of harmonisation, these essays were ground-breaking at the time of their publication and are still widely referenced to this day. Authorial commentary on the essays, provided through introductions to each section of the book, helps the reader to trace how the law has developed since, and often as a result of, the publication of each paper."-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction I. Overview II. Security Rights as Relational Legal Positions III. Incompatibility: Cross-border Problems in Trade and Finance IV. The Quest for Compatibility
• 1. Options: The Variety of Means to Promote Compatibility I. Introduction II. Thesis: The Centralised Substantive Approach III. Antithesis: Gentler Approaches IV. Search for Synthesis: The Integrated Approach V. Conclusion
• 2. Objectives: The Essence of Desirable Development towards Greater Compatibility I. Introduction II. Epistemic Issues: Criteria for Choosing Objectives III. The Objective of Foreseeability IV. The Objective of Responsiveness V. The Objective of Dividing Unforeseeability Costs VI. Interrelations between Objectives VII. Conclusion
• 3. Choices: Options Reviewed in the Light of Objectives I. Introduction II. The Centralised Substantive Approach III. The Centralised Conflicts-Approach IV. The Local Conflicts-Approach V. The Local Substantive Approach VI. Conclusion Please follow link on right side of page to see full table of contents.
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Winner of the 2016-2018 KG Idman Prize. This monograph seeks the optimal way to promote compatibility between systems of proprietary security rights in Europe, focusing on security rights over tangible movables and receivables. Based on comparative research, it proposes how best to tackle cross-border problems impeding trade and finance, notably uncertainty of enforceability and unexpected loss of security rights. It offers an extensive analysis of the academic literature of more recent years that has appeared in English, German, the Scandinavian languages and Finnish. The author organises the concrete means of promoting compatibility into a centralised substantive approach, a centralised conflicts-approach, a local conflicts-approach and a local substantive approach. The centralised approaches develop EU law, and the local approaches Member State laws. The substantive approaches unify or harmonise substantive law, while the conflicts approaches rely on private international law. The author proposes determining the optimal way to promote compatibility by objective-based division of labour between the four approaches. The objectives developed for that purpose are derived from the economic functions of security rights, the conditions for legal evolution and a transnational conception of justice. This book is an important contribution to the future of secured transactions law in Europe and more widely. It will be of interest to academics, policymakers and legal practitioners involved in this field.
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• Preface
• Foreword by the author
• General provisions
• Formation and authority of agents
• Validity
• Interpretation
• Content, third party rights and conditions
• Performance
• Non-performance
• Set-off
• Assignment of rights, transfer of obligations, assignment of contracts
• Limitation periods
• Plurality of obligors and of obligees.

"The UNIDROIT principles of international commercial contracts provide a...tool for cross-border contracts restating an international understanding of global contract law. They can be chosen as a neutral and pragmatic business oriented contractual regime for cross-border contracts, developed under the auspices and finally approved by the intergovernmental organization UNIDROIT (Rome). They contain over 50 solutions to typical contractual questions constituting compromises between civil and common law. The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law has endorsed their use 'as appropriate, for their intended purposes.' The commentary analyses the UNIDROIT principles article by article from a practical perspective, while always discussing alternative courses of action, where they apply."-- Back cover.

• Introduction
• General and specific rules on interpretation
• Specific rules of interpretation
• Good faith and fair dealing and contract interpretation
• Gap filling in the PICC, CISG, PECL and DCFR
• Conclusion

With the growth of cross-border business, the rather important but complex and controversial topic of interpretation and gap filling in international commercial contracts receives more and more attention. International legal instruments such as CISG, UNIDROIT Principles, PECL and DCFR provide rules in order to interpret international commercial contracts in a uniform way. However, while these instruments may bring together already existing national concepts, they must of course be understood beyond the domestic concepts and approaches as such. This book is an autonomous comparison across the above-mentioned international legal instruments, with a focus on the rules on interpretation and gap filling that provides the necessary theoretical background and case law to understand the rules in practice. Interpretation and Gap Filling in International Commercial Contracts examines the uniform and harmonised set of rules in their own right; without comparison to national laws, but in their own unique setting of international commercial contracts. It is a practical user guide for both scholars and practitioners.
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