This collection of specialist essays, by leading practitioners and academics, discusses 40 issues at the cutting edge of international trade law.
Note
This vol. is a based on proceedings at the 1st Schmitthoff Symposium 2000, a tree-day symposium held in London in June 2000, and organised by the Clive M. Schmitthoff Foundation and the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Is harmonisation a new necessary evil? The future of harmonisation and new sources of international trade law / Loukas Mistelis The role of UNCITRAL / Gerold Herrmann Harmonising commercial law: keeping pace with business / Maria Livanos Cattaui The role of the European community / Stephen Weatherill The role of UNIDROIT / Herbert Kronke A perspective from the Hague conference / Hans van Loon Regulation and deregulation of international trade: introductory remarks / John H. Jackson Human rights, cosmopolitan democracy and the law of world trade organisation / Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann The management of environmental regulations by international organisations / Geert van Calster The rise and fall of the multilateral agreement for investment: lessons for the regulation of international business / Peter T. Muchlinski Multilateral and bilateral approaches to the internationalisation of competition law: an EU perspective / Marise Cremona Pleading action and defences under foreign law / Oskar Hartwieg Renvoi: a necessary evil or is it possible to abolish it by statute? / Kurt Siehr Property rights in the securities markets, computerisation and conflict of laws / Joanna Benjamin The Hague Global Jurisdiction and Judgments Preliminary draft convention / Catherine Kessedjian Modern perspectives of international jurisdiction / Konstantinos D. Kerameus Arbitrators' control of tactical and procedural issues in the 21st century / Julian D.M. Lew Arbitrators' discontents: of elephants and pornography / William W. Park Power of arbitrators to fill gaps and revise contracts to make sense / Klaus Peter Berger Uniformity in the CISG in the first decade of its application / Camilla Baasch Andersen The UNIDROIT principles of international commercial contracts and the harmonisation of international sales law / Micahel Joachim Bonell Rule-setting by private organisations, standardisation of contracts and harmonisation of international sales law / Alejandro M. Garro Revisiting the autonomous contract-transitional contract "law," trends and supportive structures / Ralph Amissah Principles of contract law in electronic commerce / Raymond T. Nimmer The curious dynamics of free trade in western hemisphere: prospects for the FTAA / Joseph J. Norton Financing trade within a regional framework-legislative options: Clive M. Schmithoff on the unification of the law of international trade revised / Anna Morner Cross-border trade in financial services / Rosa Maria Lastra Payment systems in the 21st century / Robert C. Effros Recent trends in EC payment systems / Norbert Horn Managing defaulting multinationals within NAFTA / Jay Laurence Westbrook UNCITRAL projects; INSOL international/ Ron W. Marmer International insolvency at the crossroads a critical appraisal of current trends / Ian F. Fletcher Global harmonisation of intellectual property / Richard C. Wilder Intellectual property in the millennium round the TRIPS agreement after Seattle / Michael Blakeney.