International Commercial Contracts Law & Practice

Drawing together all of the legal issues associated with drafting, negotiating and litigating or arbitrating commercial agreements, International Commercial Contracts: Law and Practice provides a comprehensive reference work of all these disparate areas. The first part of the book sets out and analyses the substantive law that parties can choose to apply to contracts, as well as that which must be applied due to non-negotiable international law. This part includes coverage of contract, trade, insurance and financing law relevant to commercial contracts. There is also analysis and explanation of key specialist areas, including intellectual property, tax and competition law. The book includes a key section on dispute resolution setting out the various mechanisms available to contracting parties, addressing litigation, mediation, arbitration, and class actions. The final parts cover negotiation, drafting and ethical issues associated with contracts.

1 - Introduction
2 - Sources of Substantive Contract Law
3 - Fundamental Principles of Contract Law
4 - Private international law
5 - CISG
6 - UNIDROIT
7 - Comparative Contract Law Regimes
8 - Insurance
9 - Financing and payment
10 - Intellectual Property and International Commercial Contracts
11 - Tax matters
12 - Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty Issues (includes export and import controls)
13 - Export and Import Controls
14 - Criminal Matters
15 - Infrastructure Contracts
16 - Litigation
17 - International Commercial Mediation
18 - International Commercial Arbitration
19 - Class Actions
20 - Ethics

Dr Petra Butler is Professor at Victoria University of Wellington and Director of the Institute of Small and Micro States. She has published widely on international commercial law in particular on international commercial contracts, including Schlechtriem and Butler, UN Law on International Sales (2nd edition, Springer, forthcoming). Petra is New Zealand's CLOUT correspondent for the United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts.