As a society and an economy in transition, Russia has had to make significant and frequent changes to its laws of trade, including laws on court procedure and on such particulars as insolvency. Oda (Japanese law, U. of London) is convinced, however that the situation is stabile enough to warrant this new edition. He covers the sources of commercial law in Russia, including those of constituent entities and executive decrees, the influence of international treaties and foreign law, the institutions and procedures within the system of settling disputes, basic principles and rules of private law (including system of juristic acts) and of company law (including privatization issues, copyright, joint stock companies, securities and limited liability companies, insolvency law, the law of obligations and means of securing them, contract law, property and land law, tort and unjust enrichment, banking, natural resources, environmental law, taxation and private international law. The first edition was published in 2001 and the second in 2007. This revised second edition retains the forward to the 2007 second edition. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)