Transnational Commercial Law

Ewan McKendrick is Registrar of the University of Oxford, Professor of English Private Law and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Introduction ; PART I: GENERAL PRINCIPLES ; 1. The Nature, History and Sources of Commercial Law ; 2. 2. The Conflict of Laws in Commercial Transactions ; 3. International Law as it Affects Private Law Conventions Governing Cross-border Commercial Transactions ; 4. Comparative Law and Its Relevance to Transnational Commercial Law ; 5. The Harmonization of Commercial Law: Instruments and Institutions ; 6. Regional Harmonization ; 7. The Harmonization Process ; PART II: A VIEW THROUGH ILLUSTRATIVE CONTRACTS AND HARMONIZING INSTRUMENTS ; 8. International Sales and the Vienna Sales Convention ; 9. Carriage of Goods by the Sea ; 10. Agency and Distribution ; 11. International Bank Payment Undertakings ; 12. Financial Leasing: the 1998 UNIDROIT Convention and the UNIDROIT Draft Model Law ; 13. Receivables Financing: the UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring and the United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade ; 14. International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Cape Town Convention and Aircraft Protocol: Adding a New Dimension to International Law-making ; 15. Transactions in Securities ; PART III: HARMONIZATION OF GENERAL CONTRACT LAW ; 16. Restatements of Contract Law ; PART IV: TRANSNATIONAL INSOLVENCY ; 17. Harmonization and Co-operation in Cross-border Insolvency ; PART V: INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION ; 18. International Civil Procedure ; 19. International Commercial Arbitration ; PART VI: RECCURENT ISSUES OF HARMONIZATION ; 20. The Sphere of Application of a Convention: the Role of the Conflict of Laws; Determining the Connecting Factor; Co-existence and Conflicts of Instruments ; 21. Uniformity in Transnational Commercial Law ; 22. The Relationship between International Conventions and National Law