Title: Sustainable commercial agency agreements in civil law and common law

Authors: Vaidas Jurkevičius; Yuliia Pokhodun; Raimonda Bublienė

Addresses: Institute of Private Law, Law School, Mykolas Romeris University, Ateities st. 20, 08303 Vilnius, Lithuania ' Institute of Private Law, Law School, Mykolas Romeris University, Ateities st. 20, 08303 Vilnius, Lithuania ' Department of Law, Vilnius Tech, Faculty of Business Management, Saulėtekio al. 11, 10223 Vilnius, Lithuania

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the legal regulation of cross-border commercial agency agreements in two main legal systems: civil law and common law. It should be noted that the legal regulation of international commercial agency agreements is fragmented; therefore, the general principles of agency law could be applied in order to propose sustainable solutions in international commercial agency relationships. In this paper, the authors consider the effectiveness of these general rules in commercial agency agreements and conclude that the lack of common international regulation for leads to the application of conflicting national rules that are not sufficient in aligning the sustainable interests of all parties of such complex legal relations.

Keywords: agent; commercial agency; commercial agency agreements; ross-border commercial agency; civil law; common law.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLC.2024.137496

International Journal of Learning and Change, 2024 Vol.16 No.2/3, pp.242 - 261

Received: 14 Sep 2022
Accepted: 19 Mar 2023
Published online: 21 Mar 2024 *

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