International Commercial Contracts

Auteur
Dr Petra Butler is Professor at Victoria University of Wellington and Director of the Institute of Small and Micro States. She has published widely on international commercial law in particular on international commercial contracts, including Schlechtriem and Butler, UN Law on International Sales (2nd edition, Springer, forthcoming). Petra is New Zealand's CLOUT correspondent for the United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts.

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International Commercial Contracts: Law and Practice draws together all of the legal issues associated with drafting, negotiation, and litigating or arbitrating commercial agreements.

Résumé
Drawing together all of the legal issues associated with drafting, negotiating and litigating or arbitrating commercial agreements, International Commercial Contracts: Law and Practice provides a comprehensive reference work of all these disparate areas. The first part of the book sets out and analyses the substantive law that parties can choose to apply to contracts, as well as that which must be applied due to non-negotiable international law. This part includes coverage of contract, trade, insurance and financing law relevant to commercial contracts. There is also analysis and explanation of key specialist areas, including intellectual property, tax and competition law. The book includes a key section on dispute resolution setting out the various mechanisms available to contracting parties, addressing litigation, mediation, arbitration, and class actions. The final parts cover negotiation, drafting and ethical issues associated with contracts.

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• Part I: Introduction

• 1: Petra Butler: Introduction

• Part II: Substantive Law

• 2: Petra Butler: Sources of Substantive Contract Law

• 3: Petra Butler: Fundamental Principles of Contract Law

• 4: John McMillan: Private international law

• 5: Petra Butler: CISG

• 6: Giuditta Cordero-Moss: UNIDROIT

• 7: Petra Butler: Comparative Contract Law Regimes

• 8: Paul Michalik: Insurance

• 9: Victoria Dixon: Financing and payment

• 10: Susan Corbett: Intellectual Property and International Commercial Contracts

• 11: Petra Butler: Tax matters

• 12: Meredith Kolsky-Lewis: Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty Issues (includes export and import controls)

• 13: Meredith Kolsky-Lewis: Export and Import Controls

• 14: Abiola Makinwa: Criminal Matters

• 15: Cesar Pereira, Dr Aris Georgopoulos, Christopher R. Yukins: Infrastructure Contracts

• Part III: Dispute Resolution

• 16: Laurence Shore, Monique Sasson, and Cesar Pereira: Litigation

• 17: Michael McIlwrath: International Commercial Mediation

• 18: Stefan Kroell: International Commercial Arbitration

• 19: S.I. Strong: Class Actions

• Part III: Ethics

• 20: Catherine Rogers: Ethics

• Part IV: Negotiating and Drafting

• Negotiating and Drafting