Transnational Commercial Law: Text, Cases and Materials, 2nd Edition

Introduction

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. Regional Harmonization
7. The Harmonization Process

PART II: A VIEW THROUGH ILLUSTRATIVE CONTRACTS AND HARMONIZING INSTRUMENTS
8. International Sales and the Vienna Sales Convention
9. Carriage of Goods by the Sea
10. Agency and Distribution
11. International Bank Payment Undertakings
12. Financial Leasing: the 1998 UNIDROIT Convention and the UNIDROIT Draft Model Law
13. Receivables Financing: the UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring and the United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade
14. International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Cape Town Convention and Aircraft Protocol: Adding a New Dimension to International Law-making
15. Transactions in Securities

PART III: HARMONIZATION OF GENERAL CONTRACT LAW
16. Restatements of Contract Law

PART IV: TRANSNATIONAL INSOLVENCY
17. Harmonization and Co-operation in Cross-border Insolvency

PART V: INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION
18. International Civil Procedure
19. International Commercial Arbitration

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
21. Uniformity in Transnational Commercial Law
22. The Relationship between International Conventions and National Law