International Business Law

Mark Fenwick is Professor at the Graduate School of Law, Kyushu University, Japan. Stefan Wrbka is Unit Head and Academic Coordinator, Business Law at the University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication, Vienna, Austria.

Introduction
I. Context and Themes
II. Structure and Topics
1. Consumer Law
I. Outline
II. Background Information with a Focus on EU Consumer Law
III. The Current Situation of Consumer Law at the EU Level
IV. Taking Transnational (EU) Consumer Law to the Next Level
V. Concluding Remarks
2. Product Liability Law
I. Outline
II. General Remarks and Early History of Product Liability Law
III. Product Liability in Selected Jurisdictions
IV. Some Pending Issues
V. Concluding Remarks
3. Warranty Law
I. Outline
II. Warranty Law in Early Times
III. Warranty Law in Modern Times
IV. The Phenomenon of Planned Obsolescence—a Contemporary Challenge for Warranty Law
V. Concluding Remarks on the Challenges for Warranty Law from a Transnational Perspective
4. Compensatory Collective Redress and Alternative Dispute Resolution
I. Outline
II. Collective Actions
III. Alternative Dispute Resolution
5. Corporate Governance
I. Outline
II. The ‘Agency Cost Problem’
III. Improving the Board of Directors
IV. Mobilising Institutional Investors
V. Concluding Remarks
6. Corporate Criminal Law
I. Outline
II. A History of Corporate Criminal Law
III. Justification and Rationale
IV. Corporate Criminal Liability Doctrines
V. Post-2000 Procedural Innovation
VI. New Legal Risk
VII. Concluding Remarks
7. E-Commerce Law
I. Outline
II. The Development of E-Commerce
III. E-Commerce and the Law
IV. Concluding Remarks on Pending Issues and Challenges for E-Commerce Law
Conclusion: The Future of Business Law?
I. Outline
II. A New Digital World
III. Doing Business in a Digital Age
IV. Regulating Business in a Digital Age
V. Concluding Remarks