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Authors: Jacob Ziegel (Editor), Shalom Lerner
ISBN-13: 9781901362077, ISBN-10: 1901362078
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK)
Date Published: May 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Jacob Ziegel

Book Synopsis

This volume contains original and practical papers on many areas including banking law, the UNIDROIT principles of international commercial law, competition law, electronic fund transfers, products liability, and international commercial arbitration.

	Editor's Preface
Pt. I	Basic International Commercial and Contract Law Developments	1
1	Usage and its Reception in Transnational Commercial Law	3
2	Internationalization of Sales Law - Practice under the Convention on International Sale of Goods - A Primer for Attorneys and International Traders	37
3	The Case Against Lex Mercatoria	87
4	Convergence of Contract Law Systems and the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts: A Search for the Nature of Contract	97
Pt. II	Banking Law, Payment Systems and International Finance	105
5	Unauthorized Electronic Funds Transfers - Comparative Aspects	107
6	Standby Rulemaking: A Glimpse at the Elements of Standardization and Harmonization of Banking Practice	135
7	International Demand Guarantees: The Interaction of the Uncitral Convention and the URDG Rules of the ICC	161
8	Guarantees on First Demand: The Chilean Position	171
Pt. III	Secured Transactions in Movable Property	181
9	Modernizing the Secured Financing and Lease Financing Laws of Developing Nations, with Particular Focus on the West Bank and Gaza	183
10	The Registration of Company Charges Against Real Property Under Israeli Law	205
11	The Case for Modernizing World Wide Secured Transactions in Movable Property	229
Pt. IV	Conflict of Laws	235
12	Territoriality and Choice of Law in the Supreme Court of Canada: Applications in Products Liability Claims	237
Pt. V	International Trade Law	273
13	First Approach to Competition Law and Sanctioning of Disloyal Practices in Mercosur	275
14	State Contracts, State Interests and International Commercial Arbitration: A Third World Perspective	293
15	The New GATT Agreement on Government Procurement: Impressive Achievements but a Setback for Multilateralism	317
Pt. VI	The Challenges of Adapting to Market Economics	345
16	The Development of Securities Regulation in Emerging African Capital Markets	347
17	Process of Transition and Commercial Law in Central and Eastern Europe	367
18	The Challenges of Adapting Law to Market Economics in Post-communist Central European Countries	383
19	Integrator Companies in Mexico: Lifesavers of Micro, Small and Medium-sized Industries	397
Pt. VII	Consumer Law Developments	409
20	Canadian Perspectives on the Challenges of Consumer Bankruptcies	411
21	A European Concept of Consumer Rights: Some Reflections on Rethinking Community Consumer Law	431
22	Saying Nothing with Words	469
23	Comparative Publicity in the Honduran Commercial Code and Consumer Protection Law	487
	Index	501

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