UNIDROIT Studies.pdf

Studies by UNIDROIT cover various areas including negotiable instruments, maintenance obligations, arbitration, international sales, intellectual property, hotelkeepers, insurance, capital markets, transport law, contracts, civil liability, company law, natural resources, cultural property, trusts, unfair competition, and commercial contracts. Specific topics include bills of exchange, promissory notes, cheques, enforcement of maintenance obligations, international law on arbitration, international sale of goods, copyright, and standard publication contracts. Other areas of focus are credit paper guarantees, unfair competition, performers' rights, hotelkeepers' contracts, insurance, stock exchange transactions, international carriage, formation of contracts, civil liability of motorists, and uniform rules for clearing houses. Additionally, studies cover agency in international sales, international loans, legal status of women, public calamity insurance, international carriage of goods, commission on international sale or purchase of goods, arbitration between governments and individuals, unification of legislation on corporations, and inland navigation law. Further topics include establishment, civil procedure, basic products, carriage of goods by rail, electric power, European corporations, liability regime of carriers, commercial paper, forwarding agency contracts, interpretation of uniform laws, protection of cultural property, and unification of provisions of law of private international law. Other studies are on trust, unfair competition, combined transport of goods, international form of will, liability of international terminal operators, acquisition in good faith of corporeal movables, institutions for collective investment, travel agency contracts, sales of movables by instalment, principles of international commercial contracts, and model clauses for the use of UNIDROIT principles. The list also includes transport by pipelines, legal status of air-cushion vehicles, civil liability for damage caused by small craft, carriage of live animals, gold clauses in international conventions, international factoring contract, international financial leasing contract, inspection agency contracts, power of attorney, civil liability connected with dangerous activities, scholarship and internship programme, credit cards, franchising contracts, organization of an information system, international protection of cultural property, internal relations between principals and agents, international interests in mobile equipment, and legal issues connected with software.