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Transnational commercial law : text, cases and materials /

'Transnational Commercial Law' brings together all the necessary materials on this topic in a logical and accessible way. The authors provide students with an extensive discussion on the theoretical issues raised by the law.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Goode, Royston Miles (Editor ), Kronke, Herbert (Editor ), McKendrick, Ewan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edición:Second edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • TRANSNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS-SUMMARY
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Table of Cases
  • Table of Statutes, Constitutional Provisions and Statutory Instruments
  • Table of Codes
  • Table of Conventions, Protocols and Model Laws
  • Table of EC/EU Treaties and Legislation
  • Table of Uniform Rules, Uniform Trade Terms, Restatements and Model Forms
  • Table of Other Instruments
  • Table of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Introductory Reading
  • I GENERAL PRINCIPLES
  • 1. The Nature, History, and Sources of Commercial Law
  • A. The Nature of Commercial Law.
  • B. The Role of Conflict of Laws in International Commercial Law
  • Prior to the advent of transnational commercial law
  • A new era: The Warsaw Convention of 1929
  • C. Selected Issues of General Conflict of Laws Theory
  • Jurisdiction
  • Rules v 'approaches'
  • Connecting factors of particular relevance in commercial law
  • Contracts
  • Property
  • Other important connecting factors
  • Characterization
  • Public policy (ordre public)
  • Mandatory rules in the law of contracts
  • Neo-statutist theory and market regulation
  • Renvoi
  • D. The Future: Will We Continue to Need Conflict of Laws?
  • C. The Sources of National Commercial Law
  • Contract
  • Usage
  • Suppletive rules of common law
  • Domestic legislation
  • D. The Nature and Sources of Transnational Commercial Law
  • Is there an autonomous transnational commercial law?
  • The lex mercatoria and the conflict of laws
  • External validation by a court or tribunal
  • Determination in accordance with law
  • The sources of transnational commercial law
  • Lex mercatoria
  • International and regional instruments
  • Conscious or unconscious judicial or legislative parallelism.
  • Contractually incorporated rules and trade terms promulgated by international organizations
  • Standard-term contracts
  • Restatements of scholars
  • General principles of international law
  • E. Lex Mercatoria
  • The sources of the lex mercatoria
  • The normative force of usage
  • International conventions as evidence of usage
  • General principles of law
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • 2. The Conflict of Laws in Commercial Transactions
  • A. The Nature of Conflict of Laws
  • Definition
  • The structure of a conflicts rule ('meta law').
  • Three definitions
  • Commercial law
  • Transnational commercial law
  • Lex mercatoria
  • What drives commercial law?
  • A medieval example
  • A later example
  • A modern example
  • Commercial law and civil law
  • The transition from planned economies to market economies
  • B. The History of Commercial Law
  • The early and medieval codes
  • Characteristics of the medieval law merchant
  • The nationalization of commercial law
  • The return to internationalism and the growth of transnational commercial law
  • The perceived benefits of harmonization
  • The growth of regionalism.