The Impact of Corruption on International Commercial Contracts

Preface.- About the Authors.- I. The Impact of Corruption on International Commercial Contracts - General Report.- Michael Joachim Bonell and Olaf Meyer.- II. New Wine in Old Bottles: Corrupt Foreign Contracts in Canadian Private Law; Joshua Karton and Jenna-Dawn Shervill.- III. Balancing Public Interest with Transactional Security: The Validity of Contracts Tainted with Corruption under Chinese Law; Qiao Liu and Xiang Ren.- IV. Consequences of Corrupt Practices in Business Transactions (Including International) in Terms of Czech Law; Jirí Valdhans.- V. The Civil Law Consequences of Corruption According to the Laws of the Least Corrupt Country in the World - Denmark; Peter Damsholt Langsted and Lars Bo Langsted.- VI. English Judges: Little Mice in the Big Business of Corruption?; Yseult Marique.- VII. Still Some Un clarity Regarding the Legal Consequences Arising from the Nullity of Agreements through Corruption - Estonia; Marko Kairjak.- VIII. Who Gets the Bribe? - The German Perspective on Civil Law Consequences of Corruption in International Contracts; Matthias Weller.- IX. The Effects of Corruption on Contracts in Italy: The Long Road towards a Legal and Fair, Competitive Market; Paola Mariani.- X. Contracts Tainted by Corruption: Does Dutch Civil Law Augment the Criminalization of Corruption?; Abiola Makinwa and Xandra Kramer.- XI. Civil Law Forfeiture as Means to Restrict the Application of the in pari delicto-Principle and Other Private Law Consequences of Corruption under Polish Law; Maksymilian Pazdan and Maciej Zachariasiewicz.- XII. Corruption in International Commercial Contracts - A Portuguese Substantive and Private International Law Perspective; Luís de Lima Pinheiro.- XIII. Russian Experience and Practice on Civil Law Consequences of Corruption; Sergey Usoskin.- XIV. For a Few Dollars More - Corruption in Singapore; Michael Furmston.- XV. The Civil Law Consequences of Corruption under South African Law; Tjakie Naudé.- XVI. Impact of Bribery on Contracts under Swiss Civil Law; Christa Kissling.- XVII. The Civil Law Consequences of Corruption under the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts: an Analysis in Light of International Arbitration Practice; Richard Kreindler and Francesca Gesualdi.- XVIII. The United States' Multidimensional Approach to Combatting Corruption; Padideh Ala'i.- XIX. Fighting Corruption from the Civil Side: Echoes from the Silence of Venezuelan Contract Law; Eugenio Hernández-Bretón and Claudia Madrid Martínez.