Theory and Practice of Harmonisation

Edited by Mads Andenas, Professor of Law, University of Oslo, Norway, and formerly Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, and the Centre of European Law, King’s College, University of London, UK and Camilla Baasch Andersen, The University of Western Australia

• Contents:Preface1. Harmonising and Regulating Financial MarketsMads Andenas2. Applied Uniformity of a Uniform Commercial Law: Ensuring Functional Harmonisation of Uniform Texts through a Global Jurisconsultorium of the CISGCamilla Baasch Andersen3. Regulatory Competition or Harmonisation: The Dilemma, the Alternatives and the Prospect of Reflexive HarmonisationStelios Andreadakis4. Harmonisation of Substantive Legal Principles and Structures: Lessons from Environmental Laws in a Federal Legal System (Australia)Ross Ashcroft5. Disharmony in the Process of Harmonisation? – The Analytical Account of the Strasbourg Court’s Variable Geometry of Decision-making Policy Based on the Margin of Appreciation DoctrineYutaka Arai-Takahashi6. The Draft Academic Common Frame of Reference and the ‘Toolbox’Hugh Beale7. Francovich Liability for Breach of European Union LawGerrit Betlem8. International Law on the Carriage of Goods by Sea: UNCITRAL’s Most Recent Harmonisation EffortsMiriam Goldby9. Demandeur-centricity in Transnational Commercial Law Sandeep Gopalan10. International Commercial Harmonisation and National Resistance – the Development and Reform of Transnational Commercial Law and its Application Within National Legal CultureMaren Heidemann11. Methodological Challenges of Codifying or Consolidating National and International Sales Law Based on CISG Article 35Rene Franz Henschel12. How Far are National Broadcasting Orders Converging as a Consequence of European Media Law and Policy?Irini Katsirea13. The Fallacy of the Common Core: Polycontextualism in Surety Protection – a ‘Hard Case’ in Harmonisation DiscourseMel Kenny and James Devenney14. Harmonisation of Business Law: The Experience of AfricaJimmy Kodo15. Achieving Optimal Use of Harmonisation Techniques in an Increasingly Interrelated Twenty-first Century World–Consumer Sales: Moving the EU Harmonisation Process to a Global PlaneLouis F. Del Duca, Albert H. Kritzer and Daniel Nagel16. The Meaning of Harmonisation in the Context of European Union Law – a Process in Need of DefinitionEva J. Lohse17. Theory and Practice of Harmonisation in the European Internal MarketIsidora Maletić18. International Competition Law Harmonisation and The WTO: Past, Present and FutureJurgita Malinauskaite19. Convergence, Path-dependency and Credit Securities: The Case Against Europe-wide HarmonisationGerald McCormack20. Lex Mercatoria as Transnational Commercial Law: Is the Lex Mercatoria Preferentially for the ‘Mercatocracy’? Adaora Okwor21. The Legal Basis for Harmonisation of Environmental Criminal Law in the EU: Past and Future ChallengesRicardo Pereira22. Comparative Law and European Harmonisation – a Match Made in Heaven or Uneasy Bedfellows? Dagmar Schiek23. Should the EU be Attempting to Harmonise National Systems of Labour Law?Phil Syrpis24. The Acquis Principles: An Insider’s Critical Reflections on the Drafting ProcessChristian Twigg-Flesner25. Harmonisation of Competition Law in Multilateral Trade Framework: China’s WTO Membership and its Anti-monopoly LawQianlan Wu26. Harmonised Legal Framework for Carbon TradingBruno Zeller27. Technical Considerations in Harmonisation and Approximation: Legislative Drafting Techniques for Full TranspositionHelen Xanthaki28. International Harmonisation of Credit and Security Laws: The Way ForwardOrkun Akseli29. Towards a Theory of HarmonisationMads Andenas, Camilla Baasch Andersen and Ross AshcroftIndex