Despite ever growing international trade and dispute settlement, a
consistent international methodology of uniform private law has yet to
be formed. The potential of uniform law has not yet been fully
recognised.
In this book, the author examines uniform contract law comprehensively
in all relevant areas of legal doctrine and practice and considers the
barriers which exist toward it in modern nation states, namely in the
German and English legal systems. She suggests ways in which these
barriers can be overcome and develops an autonomous methodology of
interpretation of transnational contract principles. The author wants to
encourage the use of existing uniform transnational law rules, such as
the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, which are
analysed here as an example.