The Unification of International Commercial Law

Franco Ferrari (éd.)
The Unification of International
Commercial Law
Tilburg Lectures
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Baden-Baden
Table of Contents
Foreword
I. Opening Lecture
The Law of Transnational Commerce
by Uwe Blaurock
II. Unification of Commercial Law within Europe
Implementation of the EC Directive on Unfair Contact Terms (93/13) in Italy,
the United Kingdom and France, and its Effects on European Contact Law
by GuidoAlpa
A Common Contact Law for the Common Market
by Jùrgen Basedow
27
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III. General Issues Concerning the Unification of Commercial Law
Uniform Commercial Law and International Self-Regulation
byFilipDeLy
Légal Framework for Régional Intégration in the Americas:
Inter-American Conventions and Beyond
by Alejandro M. Garro
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IV. Unification of Commercial Law in Spécifie Areas
The Transport of Goods in Europe. Patterns and Problems of Uniform Law
by Malcolm Clarke
101
The International Sphère of Application of the 1988 Ottawa Convention
on International Factoring
by Franco Ferrari
135
Les premières applications jurisprudentielles de la Convention de Vienne
sur la vente internationale de marchandises
par Claude Witz
159
V. Unification of Law in Areas Related to Commercial Law
Le rapprochement des procédures civiles internationales
par Chiara Giovannucci Orlandi
173
A Project of Rules for Transnational Litigation
by Michèle Taruffo
189
Vers une européisation du droit pénal des affaires? Limites et
perspectives d'un ius commune criminale
par Alessandro Bernardi
201
VI. Closing Lecture
Counterpoint: Law is also Culture
by Pierre Legrand
245
Appendix
Transnational Rules of Civil Procédure
by Geoffrey C. HazardJr. and Michèle Taruffo
259