Boilerplate Clauses, International Commercial Contracts and the Applicable Law

Introduction; Part I. How Contracts Are Written In Practice: 1. Negotiating international contracts: does the process invite a review of standard contracts from the point of view of national legal requirements? David Echenberg; 2. Multinational companies and national contracts Maria Celeste Vettese; Part II. Methodological Challenges: 3. Does the use of common law contract models give rise to a tacit choice of law or to a harmonised, transnational interpretation? Giuditta Cordero Moss; 4. Common law based contracts under German law Gerhard Dannemann; 5. Comparing exculpatory clauses under Anglo-American law: testing total legal convergence Edward T. Canuel; 6. Circulation of common law contract models in Europe: the impact of European Union system Jean-Sylvestre Bergé; Part III. The Applicable Law's Effects on Boilerplate Clauses: 7. The common law tradition: application of boilerplate clauses under English law Edwin Peel; 8. The Germanic tradition: application of boilerplate clauses under German law Ulrich Magnus; 9. The Romanistic tradition: application of boilerplate clauses under French law Xavier Lagarde, David Méheut and Jean-Michel Reversac; 10. The Romanistic tradition: application of boilerplate clauses under Italian law Giorgio De Nova; 11. The Nordic tradition: application of boilerplate clauses under Danish law Peter Møgelvang-Hansen; 12. The Nordic tradition: application of boilerplate clauses under Finnish Law Gustaf Möller; 13. The Nordic tradition: application of boilerplate clauses under Norwegian law Viggo Hagstrøm; 14. The Nordic tradition: application of boilerplate clauses under Swedish law Lars Gorton; 15. The East European tradition: application of boilerplate clauses under Hungarian law Attila Menyhárd; 16. The East European tradition: application of boilerplate clauses under Russian law Ivan S. Zykin; 17. Conclusion: the self-sufficient contract, uniformly interpreted on the basis of its own terms: an illusion, but not fully useless Giuditta Cordero Moss.