Transnational Commercial Law

by Roy Goode; Herbert Kronke; Ewan McKendrick

• ISBN13: 9780191054549
• ISBN10: 0191054542
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2015-09-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Academic UK

Author Biography

Roy Goode, Emeritus Professor of Law, Emeritus Fellow of St. John's College, University of Oxford,Herbert Kronke, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law, Heidelberg University,Ewan McKendrick, Registrar, Professor of English Private Law and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, University of Oxford

Sir Roy Goode is Emeritus Professor of Law and Emeritus Fellow of St. John's College, University of Oxford.


Herbert Kronke is Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law at Heidelberg University

Ewan McKendrick is Registrar of the University of Oxford, Professor of English Private Law and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Sir Roy Goode, Professor Herbert Kronke, Professor Ewan McKendrick
Part I: General Principles
1. The Nature, History and Sources of Commercial Law, Sir Roy Goode
2. 2. The Conflict of Laws in Commercial Transactions, Professor Herbert Kronke
3. International Law as it Affects Private Law Conventions Governing Cross-border Commercial Transactions, Sir Roy Goode
4. Comparative Law and Its Relevance to Transnational Commercial Law, Sir Roy Goode
5. The Harmonization of Commercial Law: Instruments and Institutions, Professor Anna Veneziano
6. Regional Harmonization, Professor Anna Veneziano
7. The Harmonization Process, Sir Roy Goode
Part II: A View Through Illustrative Contracts and Harmonizing Instruments
8. International Sales and the Vienna Sales Convention, Professor Ewan McKendrick
9. Carriage of Goods by the Sea, Professor Caslav Pejovic
10. Agency and Distribution, Professor Herbert Kronke and Professor Ewan McKendrick
11. International Bank Payment Undertakings, Sir Roy Goode
12. Financial Leasing: the 1998 UNIDROIT Convention and the UNIDROIT Draft Model Law, Sir Roy Goode
13. Receivables Financing: the UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring and the United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade, Sir Roy Goode
14. International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Cape Town Convention and Aircraft Protocol: Adding a New Dimension to International Law-making, Sir Roy Goode
15. Transactions in Securities, Dr Thomas Keijser
Part III: Harmonization of General Contract Law
16. Restatements of Contract Law, Professor Ewan McKendrick
Part IV: Transnational Insolvency
17. Harmonization and Co-operation in Cross-border Insolvency, Sir Roy Goode
Part V: International Dispute Resolution
18. International Civil Procedure, Professor Herbert Kronke
19. International Commercial Arbitration, Professor Ewan McKendrick
Part VI: Reccurent Issues of Harmonization
20. The Sphere of Application of a Convention: the Role of the Conflict of Laws; Determining the Connecting Factor; Co-existence and Conflicts of Instruments, Professor Herbert Kronke
21. Uniformity in Transnational Commercial Law, Professor Herbert Kronke
22. The Relationship between International Conventions and National Law, Professor Jeffrey Wool