This reliable guide on international trade and investment provides discussion on litigation and arbitration issues, including state immunity and acts of the state. Addresses controls on imports and exports, foreign investment, expropriation, and risk insurance. Highlights extraterritorial antitrust issues, plus multilateral trade associations such as the European Union, World Trade Organization, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and other regional integration.

Product Description: This Nutshell examines the negotiation of business transactions; the documentary sale; use of letters of credit; technology transfers; foreign investment initiation, operation and termination; property takings; EU competition rules; and dispute settlement (both litigation and arbitration), including the immunity of states and the act of state doctrine...read more

Product Description: The First Edition of Principles of International Business Transactions is designed for users of the authors' popular problem-oriented coursebook, International Business Transactions, but can be used effectively with any international trade/economic law course materials...read more

Product Description: Designed to accompany West's® coursebook, International Business Transactions, this supplement reflects the latest changes in international statutory law. Among those included: enactment and United States implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)...read more

Product Description: The supplement is designed to accompany and help you solve problems in the North American Free Trade Agreement coursebook. It includes most of the NAFTA text and amended provisions, plus numerous-related documents such as procedural rules and codes of conduct for dispute resolution panels...read more

Product Description: Reflecting the authors' many years of diverse practice experience in international litigation and arbitration matters, the real world problems posed in this law school casebook will engage students and provide lasting knowledge through a ;see it, do it, know it; approach...read more

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Product Description: Examination of a representative range of hyperthetical problems involving NAFTA, including background materials on the history of the agreement, and trade in goods problems. Discusses issues such as tariffs, transportation, investor rights, patents, counterfeiting, intergovernmental arbitrations, commercial disputes, national laws, and legal and financial services...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The edition of this Documents Supplement is designed to accompany West Group's coursebook, International Business Transactions. Nearly every problem in the coursebook in some way involves the application of statutory law. This Supplement provides primary statutory authority indispensable to resolution of the many issues raised in each problem...read more

Product Description: Dispute settlement under NAFTA is governed by complex rules and subject to a body of case law that is growing rapidly as the agreement matures. This looseleaf work, the preeminent source for all lawyers and business people who handle transactions affected by NAFTA, includes: analysis of dispute settlement under free trade agreements in general; in-depth discussion of the constitution of NAFTA dispute panels; primary source materials, including excerpts from the law, regulations, procedures and standards, as well as other relevant documents and forms; summaries followed by the full text of all cases decided under NAFTA chapters 19 and 20; summaries of all cases decided under CUSFTA chapters 18 and 19, with the full text of each included on two diskettes; a list of CUSFTA and NAFTA cases that are pending or did not lead to published decisions, with the status of each; coverage of dispute resolution under the Environmental and Labour Side Agreements; and an extensive bibliography, including materials from US, Canadian and Mexican journals...read more

Product Description: This Reader was developed to accompany the coursebook, which was designed to be used in a variety of ways. Some professors work sequentially through the book as a general introduction to international business transactions. Others selectively mix and match different parts, chapters, or problems to suit their particular teaching goals and credit hours...read more

Product Description: Contents include history, culture, and distribution of the civil law; legal structures in civil law nations; legal actors in the civil law tradition; procedure in civil law system; sources of law and the judicial process in civil law systems; fields of substantive law in civil law systems with regard to economic aspects of divorce, and the role of courts in policing contracts for unfairness; European law and institutions; the rise and fall of the socialist legal tradition; the common-law tradition; history, culture, and distribution of the common-law tradition; legal structures in England; legal actors in England; procedure in England; legal rules in England; and divisions of English law...read more