Making Commercial Law

PRELIMS ; FOREWORD BY LORD GOFF ; PROFESSOR ROY GOODE ; LORD BINGHAM ; ROYSTON MILES GOODE: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH ; ROSS CRANSTON ; ROY GOODE AND QUEEN MARY COLLEGE ; GRAHAM ZELLICK ; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ; CONTENTS ; 1. THE LEGACY OF HISTORY ON GERMAN CONTRACT LAW ; GERHARD DANNEMANN AND BASIL MARKESINIS ; (BOTH AT THE CENTRE FOR THE ADVANCED STUDY OF EUROPEAN AND COMPARATIVE LAW, OXFORD) ; 2. COMPARATIVE FINANCIAL LAW: A CLASSIFICATION OF THE WORLDS' JURISDICTIONS ; PHILIP R WOOD (ALLEN & OVERY, LONDON; QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE, UCL) ; 3. THE UNIDROIT PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS AND THE PRINCIPLES OF EUROPEAN CONTRACT LAW: A COMPARISON ; MICHAEL JOACHIM BONELL (UNIVERSITY OF ROME I'LA SAPIENZA, ITALY) ; 4 EIGHT PRINCIPLES OF EUROPEAN CONTRACT LAW ; OLE LANDO (INSTITUT DE DROIT DU MARCH EUROPEN ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES, COMMERCIALES DE COPENHAGEN, DENMARK) ; 5. HARMONIZATION OF PRIVATE LAWS IN FEDERAL SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT: CANADA, THE USA, AND AUSTRALIA ; JACOB S ZIEGEL (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, CANADA) ; 6. LINKED CONTRACTS ; JAN HELLNER (UNIVERISTY OF STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN) ; 7. BREACH OF CONTRACT AND RECOVERABLE LOSSES ; JAN RAMBERG (UNIVERISTY OF STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN) ; 8. LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND SWAPS: UNDERMINING THE MARKET? ; EWAN MCKENDRICK (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON) ; 9. THE NECESSITY OF A UNITARY LAW OF TRACING ; PETER BIRKS (ALL SOULS COLLEGE, OXFORD) ; 10. WHEN IS AN AGENT'S AUTHORITY IRREVOCABLE? ; F M B REYNOLDS (WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD) ; 11. THE BIFOCAL WORLD OF INTERNATIONAL SALES: VIENNA AND NON-VIENNA ; MICHAEL G BRIDGE (UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM) ; 12. 'BANKING LAW' IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: THE DYNAMICS OF INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY CONVERGENCE ; JOSEPH L NORTON (QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE, UCL) ; 13. LIABILITY FOR FOREIGN BRANCH DEPOSITS IN ENGLISH LAW ; WILLIAM BLAIR (QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE, UCL) ; 14. BANKING NETWORKS ; ROSS CRANSTON (LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON) ; 15. THE 'BEST PRACTICES' APPROACH TO THE UNIFORMITY OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW: THE UCP 500 AND THE NAFTA IMPLEMENTATION EXPERIENCE ; BORIS KOZOLCHYK (UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA; NATIONAL LAW CENTER, ARIZONA) ; 16. MODELS-BASED REGULATION OF BANK CAPITAL ; HAL S SCOTT (HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, USA) ; 17. JUGGLING WITH NORMS: THE CONFLICT BETWEEN COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS UNDER INSOLVENCY LAW ; IAN S FLETCHER (UNIVERSITY OF LONDON; QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE, UCL) ; 18. UNIVERSAL PARTICIPATION IN TRANSNATIONAL BANKRUPTCIES ; JAY LAWRENCE WESTBROOK (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN, USA) ; 19. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE LAW RELATING TO PREFERENCES ; D D PRENTICE (PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD) ; 20. COMMERCIAL MORALITY AND PUBLIC POLICY AS 'PRINCIPLES' OF CORPORATE INSOLVENCY LAW ; ROMAN TOMASIC (UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA) ; 21. CHANGES TO PERSONAL PROPERTY SECURITY LAW IN ITALY: A COMPARATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACH ; GUIDO FERRARINI (UNIVERSITY OF GENOA, ITALY) ; 22. THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF SECURED FINANCING LAW: THE SPREADING INFLUENCE OF THE CONCEPTS UCC, ARTICLE 9 AND ITS PROGENY ; RONALD C C CUMING (UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA) ; 23. THE PROTECTION OF COMMERCIAL INTERESTS UNDER THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ; PETER DUFFY (BARRISTER, ESSEX COURT CHAMBERS, LONDON) ; 24. INTEREST ON MONEY AWARDS IN INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION ; JULIAN D M LEW (HERBERT SMITH; QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE, UCL) ; ROY GOODE PUBLICATIONS 1962-1996 ; INDEX