The Unification of International Commercial Law

Since the unification of transnational commercial law promotes certainty of law and, by doing so, the flow of international trade, there is a strong tendency to unify the rules governing situations linked to a plurality of countries. The Tilburg Lectures examine the issue of unification from various points of view (from a scholarly as well as a practitioner’s point of view). They show that unification can be pursued on various levels (a regional, European, versus a global level) by using different means (conventions versus model laws) focusing on different methods (unification of substantive law versus unification of private international law and procedural law) and subjects (from the unification of sales law, factoring law, transport law to the unification of procedural law and arbitration law). This book collects the 12 speeches delivered on the occasion of the Lectures held in Tilburg from 2–4 April 1996, including a draft of Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure.