A free research & knowledge platform on transnational commercial law. Includes Trans-lex principles, collection of principles and rules of transnational commercial law. "Materials" include national legislation, conventions, model laws, restatements, arbitration and mediation rules and arbitration best practices.
Regulation (EC) No 864/2007 sets out the rules to determine the law that governs non-contractual obligations arising between parties in most civil and commercial matters
A free research & knowledge platform on transnational commercial law. Includes Trans-lex principles, collection of principles and rules of transnational commercial law. "Materials" include national legislation, conventions, model laws, restatements, arbitration and mediation rules and arbitration best practices.
Purpose: To facilitate the use of electronic communications in international trade by assuring that contracts concluded and other communications exchanged electronically are as valid and enforceable as their traditional paper-based equivalents
Purpose: To establish uniform rules governing the period of time within which a party must commence legal proceedings against another party to assert a claim arising from the contract or relating to its breach, termination, or validity
Purpose: To establish a balanced set of rules designed for use throughout the world irrespective of the legal traditions and economic or political conditions of the countries in which they are to be applied
"strengthens the international competitiveness of U.S. industry, promotes trade and investment, and ensures fair trade and compliance with trade laws and agreements."
"We negotiate directly with foreign governments to create trade agreements, to resolve disputes, and to participate in global trade policy organizations. We also meet with governments, with business groups, with legislators and with public interest groups to gather input on trade issues and to discuss the President's trade policy positions."
Its mission is "developing and maintaining a robust cross-border legal framework" ... "by preparing and promoting the use and adoption of legislative and non-legislative instruments in a number of key areas of commercial law." Texts include the Convention for the International Sald of Goods (CISG)
"operates a global system of trade rules, it acts as a forum for negotiating trade agreements, it settles trade disputes between its members and it supports the needs of developing countries."
An intergovernmental organization that develops conventions on private law, such as choice of law rules, jurisdictional rules, recognition of foreign judgments and commercial law.
An intergovernmental organization. "Its purpose is to study needs and methods for modernising, harmonising and co-ordinating private and in particular commercial law as between States and groups of States and to formulate uniform law instruments, principles and rules to achieve those objectives."
