Legal chal­lenges of asym­met­ric com­mer­cial re­la­tion­ships in global supply chains

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

Việt Nguyễn Đức ana­lyses the private-international-law prob­lems cre­ated by asym­met­ric com­mer­cial re­la­tion­ships between small and medium-sized en­ter­prises and mul­tina­tion­al cor­por­a­tions through the Gilimex–Amazon and Shi­mano–Apple dis­putes. The dis­cus­sion covers con­trac­tu­al li­ab­il­ity, the de­term­in­a­tion of jur­is­dic­tion, the choice and ap­plic­a­tion of ap­plic­able law, and legal mech­an­isms ad­dress­ing abuse of su­per­i­or bar­gain­ing power.