Drafting International Contracts

An Analysis of Contract Clauses
2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17679-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 656 Seiten, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1208 g

'Drafting International Contracts' is an essential resource for anyone working in international business. The book is a straightforward, easy-to-use tool featuring all the latest trends and developments, including a summary of 25 years of meetings and discussions of the International Contracts Working Group, comprised of professional lawyers, corporate counsel, and academics. It offers a systematic analysis of the main clauses present in international contracts, providing abundant quotations of actual clauses, with critical assessments. The book fosters an understanding of how international contracts are drafted in actual practice.

Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Zielgruppe

Legal practitioners, scholars, and students

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fontaine, Marcel

Ly, Filip

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Privatrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Berufs- und Gebührenrecht freie Berufe Rechtsanwälte und Notare Formular- und Mustersammlungen, Vertragsgestaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Letters of Intent
Chapter 2: Recitals in International Contracts
Chapter 3: Interpretation Clauses
Chapter 4: Best Efforts, Reasonable Care, Due Diligence and General Trade Standards in International Contracts
Chapter 5: Confidentiality Clauses in International Contracts
Chapter 6: Penalty Clauses
Chapter 7: Limitation of Liability and Exemption Clauses
Chapter 8: Force Majeure Clauses in International Contracts
Chapter 9: Hardship Clauses
Chapter 10: “English Clauses,” Most-Favored Customer Clauses and First-Refusal Clauses in International Contracts
Chapter 11: Assignment Clauses
Chapter 12: Termination Clauses
Chapter 13: Post-Contractual Obligations in International Contracts

Über Autor(innen)

Marcel Fontaine is Professor Emeritus, University of Louvain Law School, Belgium. Among his many accomplishments, Professor Fontaine has been a member and reporter of the working group in charge of drafting the “Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts” (since 1979). Currently, he is in charge of drafting a Uniform Act on Contracts for the 16 African countries belonging to OHADA (Organization for the African Harmonization of Business Law).
Filip De Ly is Professor of private international law and comparative law at the Law Faculty of the Erasmus University Rotterdam where he teaches both subjects and is doing research on international business law and international commercial arbitration.