Within agri-industry chains, important changes have taken place. Both vertical integration and vertical disintegration are occurring. These transformations may have effects on the adoption of private standards, but more importantly, may also affect the functions of private standards within the...

In this paper, I address the issue of contractual networks in the European context. The term "contractual networks" encompasses both multilateral contracts and networks of linked bilateral contracts. Contractual networks are hybrid forms of organisation located between markets and hierarchies....

The Common European Sales Law (CESL) is a regime of European sales law intended to regulate cross-border transactions. It is currently under examination at the European Parliament. The scope of the regulation is to introduce a regime for cross-border transactions that individual Member States...