The emergence and content of a spontaneous new transnational law merchant, or lex
mercatoria, substantially covering all international commercial and financial transactions remain …

It was argued in the previous two volumes that the evolution of modern commercial law is
now largely finance rather than trade or mercantile driven. Much of what was said earlier on …

Traditionally, custom was considered to be an autonomous source of law, similar to legislation
and case law, but its force was weakened in the 19'century under the influence of modern …

After Brexit, legislatures, practitioners and legal scholars in the EU have had to reconsider
what may be legally needed to support business that is increasingly conducted in or from the …

In 2011 the European Commission came with a draft Regulation for a law covering (the
largely contractual aspects of) sales of moveable assets within the EU (CESL). It is meant for …

Onder document n. 5267/XIV/68-F is begin 1968 een voorontwerp EEG-verdrag verschenen
voor de erkenning en executie van vreemde faillissementen voorzover uitgesproken in een …

The substantial completion of the 1998 EU Financial Services Action Plan and the Introduction
of Basel II in the area of capital adequacy, both in 2007, is a good moment to take stock …

Globalization of trade has been with us for a long time. After World War II, globalization's
aim was government policy to avoid a repeat of the balkanization effect that occurred in the …

The question of expropriation is at the heart of modern foreign investment law, yet remains
an area of great uncertainty and ambiguity. Neither treaty law nor existing jurisprudence …

Modern regulators are much concerned with systemic risk, or more generally with the stability
of the financial system or its disturbance. In practice, it has become the major regulatory …