Law of International Trade in the Region of the Caucasus, Central Asia and Russia

Alexander Trunk is the director of the Institute of East European Law at Kiel University, the only such institution at a German university. He has been teaching comparative law with a particular focus on Eastern Europe for more than twenty years, and has published extensively in this field, including conflict of laws and dispute resolution. Marina Trunk-Fedorova, Ph.D. (2004), is an associate professor at St. Petersburg State University and at the Ural State Law University in Yekaterinburg. She has numerous publications in English, Russian and German in the fields of international economic law. Azar Aliyev, Dr. jur. (2016), is an associate professor of international economic law and comparative law at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg and teaches also at several universities in Azerbaijan. His publications focus on investment law, comparative civil law, and dispute resolution.

Section 4

Environmental Issues


12 Trade and Environment in the Region of the Caucasus and Central Asia: The Case of Hazardous Waste

  Andreas R. Ziegler



Part 2

The Perspective of Private Law

13 Some Notes on the Law of Sales Contracts in the Region of the Caucasus and Central Asia

  Alexander Trunk



14 International Sales Law in the Region of the Caucasus and Central Asia – An Overview

  Alexander Trunk



15 Uniform Sales Law as a Tool to Facilitate Complex Global Supply Chains in Central Asia

  Cyril R. Emery



Part 3

Settlement of International Trade Disputes


Section 1

Dispute Settlement under Public International Law Mechanisms


16 Russia’s Experience in wto Dispute Settlement

  Nicolas Lamp and Larysa Workewych



17 Conflict of Jurisdictions: wto and pta s

  Peter-Tobias Stoll and Jia Xu



18 Dispute Settlement Mechanisms in Free Trade Agreements with the European Union

  Thomas Jürgensen



19 The Court of the Eurasian Economic Union

  Elena Babkina



Section 2

Special Issues


20 Environmental Governance as a Subject of Dispute Settlement Mechanisms in Regional Trade Agreements

  Karsten Nowrot



21 Parallel Use of Public and Private Law Mechanisms in Resolution of International Trade Disputes

  Ilia Rachkov



Section 3

Dispute Resolution under Private Law


22 Private Trade Disputes in State Courts in the Region of the Caucasus and Central Asia – Issues of Quality

  Alexander Trunk



23 Emerging Trends of Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and Arbitral Awards Issued in Economic Disputes in the Russian Federation

  Vladislav Starzhenetskiy



24 Some Remarks on International Commercial Arbitration in the Region of the Caucasus and Central Asia

  Alexander Trunk



25 Transparency in Settlement of Trade Disputes – Public Interest and Transparency The Work of uncitral and Its Relevance for the Eurasian Region

  Timothy J. Lemay



26 The Impacts of Public International Law on the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards

  Dagmar Richter



27 International Commercial Arbitration and Economic Sanctions

  Andrey Kotelnikov



Conclusions

   Alexander Trunk, Marina Trunk-Fedorova, and Azar Aliyev



Index