Commercial Law and Contracts

• Soft law for solid contracts? A comparative analysis of the value of the UNIDROIT principles of international commercial contracts and the principles of European contract law to the process of contract law harmonization.

I. INTRODUCTION The globalization phenomenon constantly confronts legislative bodies all over the world with one urgent question: How to draft new l...

• Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
• Vol. 34 Nbr. 1, March 2006

• U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Private International Law (ACPIL): Notice of Public Meeting on (1) Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments, and (2) Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 12353, February 29, 2012
• Notices
• State Department

• Maryland Lawyers On the Move: February 21, 2010

The Law Offices of Kirk Halpin & Associates, of Clarksville, and the Business & Technology Law Group, of Columbia, have formed an alliance. Halpin serves businesses and individuals in banking, finance and lending; business and corporate law; building and construction law; commercial transactions and contracts; employer/ employee law; franchise law; hospitality and food/beverage law; intellectual property and technology law; landlord/tenant matters; mergers and acquisitions; real estate, zoning and land use. BTLG has specialized in working with small to medium-sized companies and entrepreneurs in computer technology development and licensing transactions and litigation; employer/employee issues; small- business acquisitions; and commercial contracts. Mark D. Jackson has joined Ballard Sp...

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• February 28, 2010

• The Software Licensing Dilemma

Software licensing occupies a unique position at the intersection of contracts, intellectual property, and commercial law doctrines. The difficulty in analyzing software licensing issues directly results from the sui generis nature of software that leads to the construct of what the author refers to as the "software licensing dilemma" -- if software is sold and not licensed, the licensor's ability to control unauthorized uses of its product is significantly curtailed; on the other hand, if software is licensed and not sold, the licensee's rights under the agreement are unduly restricted. This Article argues that the validity of a license grant should not be inextricably tied to the validity of the contract. In applying a dynamic contracts approach, this Article also addresses several po...

• Brigham Young University Law Review
• Vol. 2008 Nbr. 4, July 2008

• Ferrari v. Howard, (Ohio 2002)

Federal truth in lending act; Contracts breach, installment purchase agreement, recission, other -- CSPA - RISA - debtor and creditor; Commercial law.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Contemplating a Civil Law Paradigm for a Future International Commercial Code

Introduction. II. The Two Dominant Legal Systems of the World: Common Law and Civil Law. A. The Pervasive Reach of the Two Systems. B. Basic Origins, Precepts, and Characteristics of the Common Law System. 1. Historical Roots. 2. Basic Mechanics of the Common Law System. 3. Legislation in Common Law Systems. 4. Equitable Powers of the Courts. 5. The Role of the Court and Judges in the Common Law System. 6. Summary of Common Law System. C. Basic Origins, Precepts and Characteristics of the Civil Law System. 1. Roman Origins and the Corpus Juris Civilis. 2. Revived European Study of the Corpus Juris Civilis. 3. The Rise of the Nation-State, the Revolution, and the Advent of National Codes. 4. Codification Efforts in England and the United States. 5. The Code in the Modern Civil Law Sys...

...Baxendale : "The Common Law of Contracts as a World Force in Two Ages of Revolution," which...

• Louisiana Law Review
• Nbr. 65-2, January 2005

• Property Rights, Collateral, Creditor Rights, and Insolvency in East Asia1

Yet a governance system that enforces contracts and resolves commercial disputes in a credible and predictable manner is essential to a basic market economy, as well as allowing financial markets to develop beyond the simplest single instantaneous transactions.

• Texas International Law Journal
• Vol. 42 Nbr. 3, July 2007

• Professor Karen Gross of New York Law School Named President of Southern Vermont College

NEW YORK, July 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Professor Karen Gross of New York Law School has been named President of Southern Vermont College. The announcement was made by the Board of Trustees of the College on Friday, July 14. At her investiture in the fall of 2006 as the College's eighth president, Gross will join a growing number of law professors and lawyers chosen to lead American colleges and universities, including Joel Seligman of the University of Rochester, Barry Mills of Bowdoin College, and Ellen Futter, former president of Barnard College. Gross has been a professor at New York Law School for more than 20 years, teaching courses in consumer finance, contracts, and commercial law, among others. She is also the co-founder and former president of the Coalition for Consumer Bankrupt...

• U.S. Newswire
• July 19, 2006

• Careers in Law for Business

... criminal charges, family disputes, and commercial disputes. Business organizations. Business organiz...Contracts. Attorneys become involved in the creation of prom...

• Encyclopedia of Business and Finance
• A-I

• Choice Of Law - Loan By Onshore Branch Of A Foreign Lender To A Vietnamese Entity.

... law, namely, the Civil Code and the Commercial Law. First, we discuss the right of the parties to... such law, and it governs commercial contracts. However, before we consider the Commercial Law, o...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2011, January 2011