Quo vadis Commercial Contract?

Professor Mads Andenas QC, Director of LCF, Institute of Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.Dr. Maren Heidemann, Assessor Iuris (Germany), Director of LCF, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the School of Advanced Studies and Teaching Fellow, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London.

• Preface.- Supply chain laws update – Ethics in global commerce through contract and regulation. An introduction.- Part 1: Law and technology.- The role of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the interpretation of platform operators and business users contracts.- Freedom to contract and democracy in the age of blockchain and smart contract.- Part 2: sustainability in commercial contracts.- Eco-reasonableness. Possibilities of incorporating green principles into general private law Clauses.- Right to cure – the odd one out? The CISG's remedial scheme and the circular economy.- From “green bond principles” to “green bond clauses”: mitigating greenwashing through contract law.- Part 3 : Supervening events and contractual ethics.- The Consequences of Brexit for Regulatory Competition and the Approximation of Commercial Law.- A new approach to contracts breached by COVID-19.- Hong Kong Insurance Industry in Response to COVID-19.- Uniformity or Diversity of the Concept of Good Faithunder the CISG and UAE Law.- The Erosion of Contractual Freedom in Commercial Contracts. A Belgian case-study.- Inequality of Bargaining Power and Arbitration: The Tale of Uber.