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

Publication Info. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Edition Second edition.
Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary '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.
Contents 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.
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Subject Commercial law.
Commercial law.
Conflict of laws -- Commercial law.
Conflict of laws -- Commercial law.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Casebooks (Law)
Casebooks (Law)
Added Author Goode, Royston Miles, editor.
Kronke, Herbert, editor.
McKendrick, Ewan, editor.
ISBN 9780191054549 (electronic book)
0191054542 (electronic book)
9780198735441
0198735448
9780198735441