Bruno Zeller is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at University Western Australia and Adjunct Professor at The Sir Cowan Centre at the Victoria University.Camilla Baasch Andersen is Professor at the Law School, University of Western Australia and Fellow at the Pace Institute of International Commercial Law.

“The scope of this new book is impressive. Its 24 chapters fall into seven sections. These deal respectively with the theory and methods of harmonisation, transnational sales, asset securitisation and insolvency, issues of carriage and finance, international commercial dispute resolution, data protection laws and new frontiers, including the digital economy and smart contracts. There are new observations on long-established instruments such as the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, and the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment. Each chapter provides new insights into both new and old problems. This is a collection of essays which merits close attention by all those having an interest in transnational commercial law, whether as students, teachers or practising lawyers. It merits all the success it will undoubtedly achieve.”Sir Roy Goode, QC; University of Oxford, UK

• About the EditorsList of contributorsPrefaceIntroduction by Roy GoodeSection I: Transnational Commercial Laws; Theory and MethodsChapter 1 Transnational contract law - concepts and definitionsMaren HeidemannChapter 2 Relational Contract Theory and the CISG – A New Interpretational Framework? Claire Jing Ni Tai & Camilla AndersenSection II: Transnational SalesChapter 3 Inside Out: The outer limits of the CISG in times of change – Smart contracts, AI, digital assets and cryptocurrencyLisa SpagnoloChapter 4 The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial ContractsOlaf MeyerChapter 5 CISG in the MetaversePilar Perales and Monica LastiriChapter 6 The CISG - where are we nowEdgardo MuñozChapter 7 If not when? – The Scope of Art. 79 CISG in Light of the Covid-19 PandemicTimothy HebbardChapter 8 Conflict of laws for sustainable supply chains: a magic wand or a medieval club?Ekaterina PannebakkerSection III: Asset Securitization and InsolvencyChapter 9 Harmonising insolvency law around the world: successes and failuresEmilie GhioChapter 10 Asset Securitization in BankruptcySteven WaltSection IV: Issues of Carriage and FinanceChapter 11 Marine Insurance in the modern age: The way forward post the Insurance Act 2015 and the disruption of the insurance sector from AIKyriaki NoussiaChapter 12 The UK's Electronic Trade Documents Bill: Towards the Legal Recognition of Electronic Transferable Records in International Trade.Caslav Pejovic and Lee UnhoChapter 13 A contract for the carriage of goods by sea involving Australia – Chapter 11 of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1991 (Cth) revisited.Poomintr SooksripaisarnkitSection V: International Commercial Dispute ResolutionChapter 14 Avoiding Pitfalls when Drafting and Enforcing Multi-Tier Dispute Resolution AgreementsJoshua D. H. KartonChapter 15 Comparative analysis of the interpretation and application of the public policy exception under Article V(2)(b) of the New York ConventionFrancesco MazzottaChapter 16 Choosing the Law Applicable to the International Arbitration AgreementMiquel Mirambell FargasSection VI: Data Protection LawsChapter 17 Data transfers in international commercial contractsPieter WoltersChapter 18 AI and making of contractsSergio Cortes BeltranChapter 19 Smart contracts and international commercial arbitrationRobert WaltersSection VII: New FrontiersChapter 20 From Intermediated to Digital Assets: Aspects of Client Protection.Thomas KeijserChapter 21 Human rights compliance clauses in International ContractsJohanna HoekstraChapter 22 Regulating Business in the metaverseAndrea GuacceroChapter 23 Lawyers and their use of AI: What are the implications for professional responsibilityBruno Zeller and Simon Burgess Chapter 24 Contract Automation - stretching functional equivalence and technological neutrality to breaking point?Christian Twigg-FlesnerIndex

Bruno Zeller is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at University Western Australia and Adjunct Professor at The Sir Cowan Centre at the Victoria University.Camilla Baasch Andersen is Professor at the Law School, University of Western Australia and Fellow at the Pace Institute of International Commercial Law.

“The scope of this new book is impressive. Its 24 chapters fall into seven sections. These deal respectively with the theory and methods of harmonisation, transnational sales, asset securitisation and insolvency, issues of carriage and finance, international commercial dispute resolution, data protection laws and new frontiers, including the digital economy and smart contracts. There are new observations on long-established instruments such as the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, and the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment. Each chapter provides new insights into both new and old problems. This is a collection of essays which merits close attention by all those having an interest in transnational commercial law, whether as students, teachers or practising lawyers. It merits all the success it will undoubtedly achieve.”Sir Roy Goode, QC; University of Oxford, UK

• About the EditorsList of contributorsPrefaceIntroduction by Roy GoodeSection I: Transnational Commercial Laws; Theory and MethodsChapter 1 Transnational contract law - concepts and definitionsMaren HeidemannChapter 2 Relational Contract Theory and the CISG – A New Interpretational Framework? Claire Jing Ni Tai & Camilla AndersenSection II: Transnational SalesChapter 3 Inside Out: The outer limits of the CISG in times of change – Smart contracts, AI, digital assets and cryptocurrencyLisa SpagnoloChapter 4 The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial ContractsOlaf MeyerChapter 5 CISG in the MetaversePilar Perales and Monica LastiriChapter 6 The CISG - where are we nowEdgardo MuñozChapter 7 If not when? – The Scope of Art. 79 CISG in Light of the Covid-19 PandemicTimothy HebbardChapter 8 Conflict of laws for sustainable supply chains: a magic wand or a medieval club?Ekaterina PannebakkerSection III: Asset Securitization and InsolvencyChapter 9 Harmonising insolvency law around the world: successes and failuresEmilie GhioChapter 10 Asset Securitization in BankruptcySteven WaltSection IV: Issues of Carriage and FinanceChapter 11 Marine Insurance in the modern age: The way forward post the Insurance Act 2015 and the disruption of the insurance sector from AIKyriaki NoussiaChapter 12 The UK's Electronic Trade Documents Bill: Towards the Legal Recognition of Electronic Transferable Records in International Trade.Caslav Pejovic and Lee UnhoChapter 13 A contract for the carriage of goods by sea involving Australia – Chapter 11 of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1991 (Cth) revisited.Poomintr SooksripaisarnkitSection V: International Commercial Dispute ResolutionChapter 14 Avoiding Pitfalls when Drafting and Enforcing Multi-Tier Dispute Resolution AgreementsJoshua D. H. KartonChapter 15 Comparative analysis of the interpretation and application of the public policy exception under Article V(2)(b) of the New York ConventionFrancesco MazzottaChapter 16 Choosing the Law Applicable to the International Arbitration AgreementMiquel Mirambell FargasSection VI: Data Protection LawsChapter 17 Data transfers in international commercial contractsPieter WoltersChapter 18 AI and making of contractsSergio Cortes BeltranChapter 19 Smart contracts and international commercial arbitrationRobert WaltersSection VII: New FrontiersChapter 20 From Intermediated to Digital Assets: Aspects of Client Protection.Thomas KeijserChapter 21 Human rights compliance clauses in International ContractsJohanna HoekstraChapter 22 Regulating Business in the metaverseAndrea GuacceroChapter 23 Lawyers and their use of AI: What are the implications for professional responsibilityBruno Zeller and Simon Burgess Chapter 24 Contract Automation - stretching functional equivalence and technological neutrality to breaking point?Christian Twigg-FlesnerIndex