The most comprehensive and up to date compilation of primary materials relating to transnational commercial transactions
A reliable source of reference written by a high profile author team, providing expert guidance on each instrument in the commercial context
Each instrument is preceded by a detailed table of contents allowing quick navigation
New to this edition
New materials including:
ICC Uniform Rules for demand guarantees, 2010 revision
Luxembourg Protocol to the Cape Town Convention
2008 UN Convention on Contracts for the Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea
Hague Convention on Choice of Court agreements
First and Second Protocols on Interpretation of the Rome Contracts Convention
New ICC Rules of Arbitration
A brand new section on Carriage of Goods, which includes the following new material: Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road, the Warsaw/Montreal Convention and the Hague-Visby Rules
Transnational commercial law represents the outcome of work undertaken to harmonize national laws affecting domestic and cross-border transactions and is upheld by a diverse spectrum of instruments.
Now in its second edition, this authoritative work brings together the major instruments in this field, dividing them into thirteen groups: Treaty Law, Contracts, Electronic Commerce, International Sales, Agency and Distribution, International Credit Transfers and Bank Payment Undertakings, International Secured Transactions, Cross-Border Insolvency, Securities Custody, Clearing and Settlement and Securities Collateral, Conflict of Laws, Civil Procedure, Commercial Arbitration, and a new section on Carriage of Goods.
Each group of instruments is preceded by linking text which provides important context by identifying the key instruments in each group, discussing their purposes and relationships, and explaining the major provisions of each instrument, thus setting them in their commercial context. This volume is unique in providing the full text of international conventions, including the preamble - which is important for interpretation - and the final clauses and any annexes.
In addition, each instrument is accompanied by a complete list of dates of signature and ratification by all contracting states, all easily navigated through the detailed tables of contents which precedes it. This fully-indexed work provides an indispensable guide for the practitioner or academic to the primary transnational commercial law instruments.
Readership: Practitioners (particularly those practising in commercial litigation, finance/banking, sale of goods, and insolvency), and also reference libraries and academics interested in commercial law.
