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The Roles Of Standardization, Certification And Assurance Services In Global Commerce, Margaret M. Blair, Cynthia A. Williams, Li-Wen Lin
The Roles Of Standardization, Certification And Assurance Services In Global Commerce, Margaret M. Blair, Cynthia A. Williams, Li-Wen Lin
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In this article we examine the rapid emergence and expansion of standardized product and process frameworks and a private-sector compliance and enforcement infrastructure that we believe may increasingly be providing a substitute for public and legal regulatory infrastructure in global commerce. This infrastructure is provided by a proliferation of performance codes and standards, many of which define acceptable social and environmental behavior, and a rapidly-growing number of privately-trained and authorized inspectors and certifiers that we call the third-party assurance industry. We offer reasons for this development, evidence of its scope and scale, and then describe the phenomenon in more detail …
Anatomy Of An Experiment: Consolidation Of Eu Contract Law, Ljiljana Biuković
Anatomy Of An Experiment: Consolidation Of Eu Contract Law, Ljiljana Biuković
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This article analyzes the process of harmonization of Contract Law in the European Union (EU) in the context of the general debate on the need for international harmonization of commercial law on one hand, and, on the other hand, in the context of the integration of the European market and the omnipresent European discussions on the need for harmonization, appropriate methodologies for reform and on the institutional competence to pursue the harmonization process. Part II of the article establishes interrelationships between major international harmonization efforts in the area of contract law. Part III focuses on the current situation in the …