Hors Serie Volume XX, 2016

Harmonising Trade Law to Enable Private Sector Regional Development

• Notes on the Contributors
• Muruga Perumal Ramaswamy Chapter 1: Emerging Debates in Harmonisation of Trade Law and its Role in Private Sector Regional Development

Part I - The Future of International Commercial Dispute Resolution

• Akira Saito Chapter 2: International Commercial Arbitration and International Commercial Courts: Towards a Competitive and Cooperative Relationship
• Fernando Dias Simões Chapter 3: UNCITRAL's Work on Concurrent Proceedings in Investment Arbitration: Overcoming the 'Treaty/Contract Claims' Gap
• Anna K C Koo Chapter 4: Enforcing International Mediated Settlement Agreements
• Sai Ramani Garimella Chapter 5: Revisiting Arbitration's Confidentiality Feature
• Jayems Dhingra Chapter 6: Can Justice be Served without Transparency in International Commercial Arbitration?
• James Claxton Chapter 7: Tailoring International Arbitration for Efficiency
• Raymond Ho Chapter 8: Document Production and E-Discovery in International Arbitration
• Vivek Kapoor Chapter 9: Dealing in the Virtual – International Arbitration's New Turf
• Shahla Ali Chapter 10: Harmonizing UNCITRAL Conciliation and State Mediation Law: Developments in Civil Mediation Reform

Part II - International Contract Law

• Bruno Zeller Chapter 11: Harmonisation of International Contract Law - Dream or Reality?
• Joseph W Dellapenna Chapter 12: Harmonizing Performance Standards under the Uniform Commercial Code and the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods: A Role for UNCITRAL?
• Lemuel D Lopez Chapter 13: The Curious Case of International Commercial Contracts in Asia
• Jiang Zuoli Chapter 14: The Principle of Freedom of Contract of CISG Needs to be Restricted for the Interests of the MSMEs - A Perspective of Developing Countries

Part III - E-Commerce

• Christine Duhaime Chapter 15: Harmonizing the Law of New Technology: Digital Currencies, the Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology and the Law
• Trisha Rajput and Abhinayan Basu Bal Chapter 16: Creating Sustainable Global Supply Chains through Single Window and Paperless Trade Initiatives: Efforts of WTO and UNCITRAL in Perspective
• Zhang Xiaohan Chapter 17: Considerations in Drafting the UNCITRAL ODR Rules and the Implication for the ODR Practice in China

Part IV - Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs)

• Lareina J Chan Chapter 18: Crowdfunding and its Regulation in Hong Kong: Room for Inertia?
• Jerry I-H Hsiao Chapter 19: Intellectual Property Strategy for Tech Start-Ups in Equity Crowdfunding