Harmonization and Contract in a Globalized World

Austen-Baker, Richard Lindsay Peregrine (2018) Harmonization and Contract in a Globalized World. In: Essays in Memory of Professor Jill Poole : Coherence, modernisation and integration in contract, commercial and corporate laws. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 50-65. ISBN 9781138564152

Abstract

The chapter argues that the challenges of globalization to contract law are best met through parties' approaching contracting in a relational manner and through bottom-up harmonization of terms, not through harmonization of contract law systems.