* Presents a comprehensive treatment of all key aspects of private international trade law * Demonstrates to the reader how international trade law operates in its political, economic and business contexts * Provides a clear and concise explanation of the theoretical framework, which underpins the law against the background of modern trade documentation and export practice * Demonstrates a practical approach to the subject incorporating example contractual clauses, forms and diagrams to demonstrate how the law works in practice * Offers an important treatise of the subject, examining legal complexities in cases and materials * Sets out summaries of the more significant cases * Covers significant cases on documentary credits, private international law, shipping, sale of goods and arbitration * Examines the influence of ECJ case law on private international law * Provides detailed footnotes to guide further and more detailed research into key topics