Trade usages and implied terms in the age of arbitration edited by fabien gelinas contains clearly organized chapters providing in depth information about the treatment of usages in cases and doctrine in different countries explores possible conceptual frameworks to help shape the emerging transnational law of trade usage. If a dispute between commercial parties reaches the stage of arbitration the cause is usually ambiguous contract terms and the arbitrator often resolves the dispute by applying trade usages either to interpret the ambiguous terms or to determine what the given contracts terms really are this recourse to trade usages does not create many problems on the domestic level but international . Fabien gelinas ed trade usages and implied terms in the age of arbitration oxford university press 2016 8 pages posted 18 sep 2016 see all articles by fabien gelinas. In trade usages and implied terms in the age of arbitration fabien gelinas along with a distinguished group of leaders from the international community provide a clear explanation of how usages and more generally the implicit or implied content of international commercial contracts are approached by some of the most influential legal systems in the world. Trade usages and implied terms in the age of arbitration edited by fabien gelinas this book offers a useful summary of the application of trade usages in major legal systems while not shying away from the complexity and difficult questions the employment of such usages invites in the transnational context