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Title Boilerplate clauses, international commercial contracts and the applicable law / edited by Giuditta Cordero-Moss.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 403 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "With the aim of creating an autonomous regime for the interpretation and application of the contract, boilerplate clauses are often inserted into international commercial contracts without negotiations or regard for their legal effects. The assumption that a sufficiently detailed and clear language will ensure that the legal effects of the contract will only be based on the contract, as opposed to the applicable law, was originally encouraged by English courts, and today most international contracts have these clauses, irrespective of the governing law. This collection of essays demonstrates that this assumption is not fully applicable under systems of civil law, because these systems are based on principles, such as good faith and loyalty, which contradict this approach"-- Provided by publisher.
"This book addresses the question of whether the drafting style of international contracts may actually achieve rendering the contract self-sufficient. The drafting style, including the recurrence of boilerplate clauses in all types of contracts and irrespective of the governing law, seems to aim at detaching the contract from any elements external to the contract itself, including the applicable law. This drafting style is originally based on the common law approach to contracts, but is now adopted in most international contracts even when they are not subject to a law belonging to the common law family. The analysis follows three different stages, each dealt with in a different part of the book"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Negotiating international contracts : does the process invite a review of standard contracts from the point of view of national legal requirements? / David Echenberg -- Multinational companies and national contracts / Maria Celeste Vettese -- Does the use of common law contract models give rise to a tacit choice of law or to a harmonised, transnational interpretation? / Giuditta Cordero-Moss -- Common law based contracts under German law / Gerhard Dannemann -- Comparing exculpatory clauses under Anglo-American law : testing total legal convergence / Edward T. Canuel -- Circulation of common law contract models in Europe : the impact of European Union system / Jean-Sylvestre Bergé -- Common law tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under English law / Edwin Peel -- Germanic tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under German law / Ulrich Magnus -- Romanistic tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under French law / Xavier Lagarde, David Méheut and Jean-Michel Reversac -- Romanistic tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under Italian law / Giorgio De Nova -- Nordic tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under Danish law / Peter Møgelvang-Hansen -- Nordic tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under Finnish Law / Gustaf Möller -- Nordic tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under Norwegian law / Viggo Hagstrøm -- Nordic tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under Swedish law / Lars Gorton -- East European tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under Hungarian law / Attila Menyhárd -- East European tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under Russian law / Ivan S. Zykin -- Conclusion : the self-sufficient contract, uniformly interpreted on the basis of its own terms: an illusion, but not fully useless / Giuditta Cordero-Moss.
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Subject Standardized terms of contract.
Standardized terms of contract.
Contracts -- Language.
Contracts -- Language.
Contracts.
Foreign trade regulation.
Foreign trade regulation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Cordero-Moss, Giuditta.
Other Form: Print version: Boilerplate clauses, international commercial contracts and the applicable law. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9780521197892 (DLC) 2010037106 (OCoLC)660804776
ISBN 9781139078009 (electronic book)
1139078003 (electronic book)
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0511667507 (electronic book)
9780521197892
0521197899