| Description |
lxi, 770 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"This new student work is based on a postgraduate-course on transnational commercial law that has been caught for many years at Oxford University and has proved popular with students. It is focused on the products and processes of the harmonization; of the law relating to international commercial-transactions."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Commercial law.
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Conflict of laws -- Commercial law.
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| Author |
Goode, Royston Miles.
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| LC no. |
2007010961 |
| ISBN |
9780199251667 alkaline paper |
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