Hors Serie Volume XIX, 2015

Trade Development through Harmonization of Commercial Law/L'Harmonisation du Droit Commercial Facteur de Développement du Commerce

• Notes on the Contributors

Foreword

• Ambassador Choong-hee Hahn Improving Cross-Border Trade and Investment: Models of Cooperation among Stakeholders in Theory and Practice

Introduction

• Muruga Perumal Ramaswamy Deliberations on Trade Development through Harmonization of International Commercial Law

Part I Investor-State Dispute Settlement and UNCITRAL Texts on Transparency

• Corinne Montineri UNICTRAL Standards on Transparency in Treaty-Based Investor-State Arbitration
• Peter Malanczuk China and the Emerging Standard of Transparency in Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS)
• Michael Douglas The Importance of Transparency for Legitimizing Investor-State Dispute Settlement: An Australian Perspective
• Zhonghong Bai Investor-State Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT)
• Shahla Ali Prospects of Utilising Investor-State Mediation and UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency for Polycentric Environmental Disaster-Related Disputes: The Case of Vattenfall v Germany

Part II International Commercial Arbitration and Conciliation

• João Ribeiro and Jin Lee Overview of UNCITRAL Texts on International Commercial Arbitration in Islamic Law Influenced Jurisdictions (ILIJ)
• Dalma R Demeter Freedom versus Security in Regulating ADR and International Arbitration
• Anna K C Koo UNCITRAL and International Commercial Mediation in China
• Fernando Dias Simões Harmonisation of Arbitration Laws in the Asia-Pacific: Trendy or Necessary?
• Gao Shulin Reform of Independence of Arbitration Institutions in Zhuhai
• Delcy Lagones de Anglim Is Over-Regulation Killing Arbitration and will it Kill Mediation?

Part III International Sale of Goods

• Leung Sze Lum A Critical Evaluation of Methods for the Calculation of Interest Rate under Article 78 of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)
• Rosario Elena A Laborte-Cuevas The Phillipines' Perspective on United Nations Convention on Contracts of International Sales of Goods
• Joyce Williams Analysis of CISG Article 35: Conformity of the Goods in the Changing Power Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility

Part IV International Transport of Goods and the Rotterdam Rules

• Tomotaka Fujita The Rotterdam Rules in the Asian Region
• Tan Chiang Huat Edward Complexity in Management of Claims from Carriage of Goods by Multimodal Operations

Part V Cross-Border Insolvency

• Augusto Teixeira Garcia Macau Insolvency Law and Cross Border Insolvency Issues
• Min Han Recognition of Insolvency Effects of a Foreign Insolvency Proceeding: Focusing on the Effect of Discharge

Part VI E-Commerce Law and Modern Trends in International Trade Law

• Xue Hong Regulation of E-Commerce Intermediaries: An International Perspective
• Rostam J Neuwirth and Alexandr Svetlicinii International Trade, Intellectual Property and Competition Rules: Multiple Cases for Global "Regulatory Co-Opetition"?
• Abhinayan Basu Bal The Role of UNCITRAL in Creating Strong and Secure Global Supply Chains: Transport and Ecommerce Laws in Perspective
• Muruga Perumal Ramaswamy Contemporary Issues in Harmonization of Commercial Law