Negotiating international contracts : does the process invite a review of standard contracts from the point of view of national legal requirements? / David Echenberg -- Multinational companies and national contracts / Maria Celeste Vettese -- Does the use of common law contract models give rise to a tacit choice of law or to a harmonised, transnational interpretation? / Giuditta Cordero-Moss -- Common law based contracts under German law / Gerhard Dannemann -- Comparing exculpatory clauses under Anglo-American law : testing total legal convergence / Edward T. Canuel -- Circulation of common law contract models in Europe : the impact of European Union system / Jean-Sylvestre Bergé -- The common law tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under English law / Edwin Peel -- The Germanic tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under German law / Ulrich Magnus -- The Romanistic tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under French law / Xavier Lagarde, David Méheut and Jean-Michel Reversac -- The Romanistic tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under Italian law / Giorgio De Nova -- The Nordic tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under Danish law / Peter Møgelvang-Hansen -- The Nordic tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under Finnish Law / Gustaf Möller -- The Nordic tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under Norwegian law / Viggo Hagstrøm -- The Nordic tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under Swedish law / Lars Gorton -- The East European tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under Hungarian law / Attila Menyhárd -- The East European tradition : application of boilerplate clauses under Russian law / Ivan S. Zykin. --