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Consumer Protection And Social Methods Of Continental And Anglo-American Contract Law And The Transnational Outlook, Andreas Maurer

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Debates over the content of recent EU directives and U.S. statutory amendments related to consumer protection highlight the importance of such regulation. Criticism calling for a return to freedom of contract in both regions reflects a tension between social ideals related to equality between private parties, and a deep distrust of state intervention and market regulation. With the rise of private sources for transnational commercial standards and practices, there is an opportunity for states to facilitate selfregulation in lieu of producing public substantive regulations. This approach seems to satisfy a well-established need for consumer protection without exacerbating government intervention in …

Changing Contract Lenses: Unexpected Supervening Events In English, New Zealand, U.S., Japanese, And International Sales Law And Practice, Luke Nottage

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

This article compares differences in the reasoning underlying contractual relationships between English and New Zealand law and U.S. and Japanese law. It then builds upon an existing framework by adding the notion of didactic formality to identify another important contrast between the laws of these countries. It also discusses how CISG and UPICC fit in to this spectrum. The article concludes by questioning "strong convergence" theory in commercial law worldwide.

Governing Contracts – Public and Private Perspectives, Symposium. Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, November 9-10, 2006

بدايــة النهايــة: أثــر ظهــور مجالـس تسويــة المنازعــات على اضمحـلال الـدور شبـه التحكيمـي للمهنـدس الاستشـاري فـي عقـد الفيديـك لمقـاولات أعمـال الهندسـة المدنيـة - دراسة في آليات المنازعات العقدية وفقا ً لتعديلات الإصدار الأخير من عقد الفيديك, Mashael Alhajeri

Mashael Alhajeri

Beginning of the End: Introduction of Dispute Adjudication Boards (DABs) and the Demise of Engineer’s Quasi-Arbitral Role under the FIDIC Form of Contract: A Study in Contractual Dispute Mechanisms according to the Amendments Introduced by FIDIC’s Latest Edition

Alhajeri, Mashael A.

This research paper presents a detailed insight into the Dispute Adjudication Boards system as method of resolving contractual disputes in civil engineering contracts, introduced by the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC), through the amendments made to the latest edition of its model contract.

The paper argues that the immediate effect of adopting this system is the restriction of …