This book is an article by article commentary of the UNIDROIT Principles on international commercial contracts, the most important set of rules which parties to an international contract can choose to govern their agreement. The UNIDROIT Principles have been elaborated by an international team of distinguished practitioners and academics on the basis of the rules of contracts law that are common or at least acceptable to all national legal orders. This Commentary allows easy and structured access to the Principles by offering a digest of, and extensive refrences to, the existing case law and literature, as well as comparison with existing national and international legislation and its application in practice. This book is a useful tool for practitioners and scholars needing quick and reliable information for the legal assessment of cases or for research on the law of international contracts

1. General Provisions 2. Formation and Authority of Agents 3. Validity 4. Interpretation 5. Content and Third Party Rights 6. Performance 7. Non-Performance 8. Set-off 9. Assignment of Rights, Transfer of Obligations, Assignment of Contracts 10. Limitations Periods

`The first merit of this book is its very existence...what has actually been missing so far was an article-by-article commentary and this lacuna, increasingly lamented by both academics and practitioners, has now been filled by this monumental work' Michael Joachim Bonell, Uniform Law Review