Drafting International Contracts 2nd Edition
Author(s): Marcel Fontaine (Author), Filip Ly (Author)
- Publisher: Brill | Nijhoff
- Publication Date: March 25, 2009
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 676 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004176799
- ISBN-13: 9789004176799
Book Description
Drafting International Contracts 2nd Edition 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This book is an excellent and valuable contribution to international contract practice. I have already been able to use it to my benefit, particularly the instructive and relevant discussion of the ‘best efforts’ contract clause as seen from various jurisdictions.” – Professor Thomas W. Wälde, CEPMLP/University of Dundee & Essex Court Chambers, London
From the Back Cover
“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.
About the Author
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.
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