Transnational commercial law : text, cases, and materials /
Roy Goode ... [et al.].
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- lxi, 770 p. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The nature, history, and sources of commercial law -- The conflict of laws in commercial transactions -- International law as it affects private law conventions governing cross-border commercial transactions -- Comparative law and its relevance to transnational commercial law -- The harmonization of commercial law: instruments and institutions -- The harmonization process -- International sales and the Vienna Sales Convention -- Agency and distribution -- International bank payment undertakings -- Financial leasing: the 1988 UNIDROIT Convention and the draft UNIDROIT model law -- Receivables financing: the UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring and the United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade -- International interests in mobile equipment and the Cape Town Convention and Aviation Protocol: adding a new dimension to international law-making -- Transactions in securities -- Restatements of contract law -- Harmonization and co-operation in cross-border insolvency -- International civil procedure -- International commercial arbitration -- The sphere of application of a convention; the role of the conflict of laws; determining the connecting factor; co-existence and conflicts of instruments -- Uniformity in transnational commercial law -- Getting to yes: practical and political problems of harmonization.