UPDATE TO

From assumptions to risk management.

An analysis of risk management for changing circumstances in commercial contracts,

especially in the Nordic countries.

The theory of contractual risk management and the default norms of risk allocation

Kauppakaari Oyj, Helsinki 2000. ISBN 952-14-0046-3:

16.08.2000 The products of the Finnish project to promote risk managment in small and medium-sized enterprises that was referred to at footnote 297 on page 77 are now available also in English!

http://www.vtt.fi/rm/projects/pk-rh/eng/index.htm

16.08.2000 A brand new paper written by Peter Vincent-Jones discusses the idea of contractual governance from a more broader perspective:

Contractual Governance: Institutional and Organizational Analysis (2000), Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 20, Issue 3, pp. 317-351. Abstract of the article is available at:

http://www3.oup.co.uk/oxjlsj/hdb/Volume_20/Issue_03/200317.sgm.abs.html

Another paper that is of particular interest for the readers of From Assumptions to Risk Management is found in the very same issue of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, namely C. A. Riley’s paper:

Designing Default Rules in Contract Law: Consent, Conventionalism, and Efficiency (2000), Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 20, Issue 3, pp. 367-390. Abstract of the article is available at:

http://www3.oup.co.uk/oxjlsj/hdb/Volume_20/Issue_03/200367.sgm.abs.html