Open AccessESSENCE AND LEGAL NATURE OF THE CROSS-BORDER CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT
Author(s) -
Ives Goddard
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
izvestiâ ûgo-zapadnogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2686-6757
pISSN - 2223-1560
DOI - 10.21869/2223-1560-2018-22-3-153-164
Subject(s) - conflict of laws , convention , private law , law , business , political science , law and economics , economics , public law
The article gives a thorough analysis of various means of regulation of trans-border private law issues, including trans-border construction activities, based on a contract. The author analyses the sources of law, applicable in the sphere of construction, their types and specific areas of application with regard to practice. Analysing the sources of international and national law, the author comes to the conclusion that it is necessary to take into account their specifics and development tendencies when drafting cross-border construction contracts. The author compares international and national sources of law, types of regulation at conventional and national levels and comes to the conclusion that the conventional and national sources of law are closely interconnected. Private international law; standard form contracts; construction contract; lex mercatoria; construction activity regulation, international convention, conventional regulation, conflict of laws, foreign trade transactions, standard contracts; contract, building contract; lex mercatoria; regulation of construction activities.