Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (2004) - Hardcover

9780199291755: Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (2004)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199291756 ISBN 13: 9780199291755

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008

The Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts is written by an international team of distinguished practitioners and academics. They offer an article by article commentary on the principles to provide an accessible guide to the existing case law and legal literature, as well as a comparison with national and international legislation. The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts are the result of the ambitious quest to codify the lex mercatoria; those unwritten rules of the game by which merchants have always understood to do international business. Since the publication of their first version in 1994, the UNIDROIT Principles have been impressively successful. They have become a serious alternative to national contract laws in international disputes decided by arbitral tribunals, such as those administered by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). At the same time, they have been accepted as a model for reforming the laws on inte

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About the Author

Stefan Vogenauer has been Professor of Comparative Law and Fellow at Brasenose College at the University of Oxford since 2003 and Director of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law since 2004. He was born in 1968, read law in Kiel, Paris and Oxford and is qualified to practice in Germany. Before taking up his post at Oxford he worked as a Research Assistant at the Regensburg Law Faculty, as a part-time Lecturer at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and as a Research Fellow at the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private Law and Private International Law. Apart from comparative law his research interests lie in the fields of private law, European legal history and legal method.

Dr. Jan Kleinheisterkamp is a lecturer at the London School of Economics and a visiting lecturer at Paris II. He was born in 1971 in Peru and grew up in South Africa, Colombia, Spain, Germany, the USA and Brazil. He read law in Germany (Freiburg, Hannover) until 1998, and is admitted to the Bar in Hamburg. Prior to joining LSE, he was a research assistant and then research fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law until 2004, when he was appointed Assistant Professor at the HEC School of Management, Paris. His research focuses on comparative law, conflict of laws and international arbitration.

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