International Business Law

Mark Fenwick is Professor at the Graduate School of Law, Kyushu University, Japan.Stefan Wrbka is Unit Head and Academic Coordinator, Business Law at the University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication, Vienna, Austria.

• Introduction I. Context and Themes II. Structure and Topics 1. Consumer Law I. Outline II. Background Information with a Focus on EU Consumer Law III. The Current Situation of Consumer Law at the EU Level IV. Taking Transnational (EU) Consumer Law to the Next Level V. Concluding Remarks 2. Product Liability Law I. Outline II. General Remarks and Early History of Product Liability Law III. Product Liability in Selected Jurisdictions IV. Some Pending Issues V. Concluding Remarks 3. Warranty Law I. Outline II. Warranty Law in Early Times III. Warranty Law in Modern Times IV. The Phenomenon of Planned Obsolescence—a Contemporary Challenge for Warranty Law V. Concluding Remarks on the Challenges for Warranty Law from a Transnational Perspective 4. Compensatory Collective Redress and Alternative Dispute Resolution I. Outline II. Collective Actions III. Alternative Dispute Resolution 5. Corporate Governance I. Outline II. The ‘Agency Cost Problem’ III. Improving the Board of Directors IV. Mobilising Institutional Investors V. Concluding Remarks 6. Corporate Criminal Law I. Outline II. A History of Corporate Criminal Law III. Justification and Rationale IV. Corporate Criminal Liability Doctrines V. Post-2000 Procedural Innovation VI. New Legal Risk VII. Concluding Remarks 7. E-Commerce Law I. Outline II. The Development of E-Commerce III. E-Commerce and the Law IV. Concluding Remarks on Pending Issues and Challenges for E-Commerce Law Conclusion: The Future of Business Law?I. Outline II. A New Digital World III. Doing Business in a Digital Age IV. Regulating Business in a Digital Age V. Concluding Remarks