Transnational commercial law : text, cases, and materials / Roy Goode, Herbert Kronke, Ewan McKendrick.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Commercial law.

Conflict of laws -- Commercial law.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. The nature, history, and sources of commercial law

The conflict of laws in commercial transactions

International law as it affects private law conventions governing cross-border commercial transactions

Comparative law and its relevance to transnational commercial law

The harmonization of commercial law, instruments and institutions

The harmonization process

International sales and the Vienna Sales Convention

Agency and distribution

International bank payment undertakings

Financial leasing: the 1988 UNIDROIT Convention and the draft UNIDROIT model law

Receivables financing: the UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring and the United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade

International interests in mobile equipment and the Cape Town Convention and Aviation Protocol: adding a new dimension to international law-making

Transactions in securities

Restatements of contract law

Harmonization and co-operation in cross-border insolvency

International civil procedure

International commercial arbitration

The sphere of application of a convention, the role of the conflict of laws, determining the connecting factor, co-existence and conflicts of instruments

Uniformity in transnational commercial law

Getting to yes: practical and political problems of harmonization.

This book examines the nature and sources of transnational commercial law and the institutions involved. It analyses selected features of key international conventions, model laws, international restatements and uniform rules, and concludes with an analysis of the problems of harmonisation and the way forward.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780199251667

lxi, 770 p.