Description
Book SynopsisTrade and commerce are central to the wealth of nations. International and cross-border by nature, they require international rules. In response, a complex framework of rules have been developed to regulate the field, with some gaining global acceptance. Rules around the sales and carriage of goods, services, financing and security, underline transnational commercial activity. These rules are made up of international treaties and soft law. This important new commentary provides in-depth article-by-article analyses of the legislation in the field of trade and commerce. Conventions and legislation covered includes: the
CISG plus
Limitation Convention; the
UNIDROIT Principles; the
Montreal Convention; the
Commercial Agents Directive; the
Late Payment Directive and the
Cape Town Convention. This commentary takes an innovative approach by placing the different frameworks in the applied context they operate in within commercial practice. Rigorous and comprehensive, this is an essential guide for all in world of international commerce.
Trade ReviewOverall the volume is an impressive achievement that promises great benefits for both legal practitioners and legal scholars in the field of international commercial law. -- Christoph Benicke * RabelsZ (translated from the original German) *
This book … will, rightly, be regarded as an essential purchase by practically anyone who practises, studies or teaches cross-border commercial law … an excellent and up-to-date English language legal commentary in one manageable volume that has been written by a cast of twenty-one distinguished and international subject experts to cover thirteen different international legal instruments. -- Jonathan Fitchen, University of Aberdeen * Edinburgh Law Review *
