Commercial Law and Commercial Practice

Sarah Worthington is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics.

INTRODUCTION 1. Aligning Commercial Law and Commercial Practice Sarah Worthington PART 1: GENERAL PRESSURES FOR CHANGE 2. Globalization: Its Historical Context Ross Cranston,QC Commentary: Catherine Newman, QC 3. Commercial Notions and Equitable Potions Sir John Mummery Commentary: Philip Wood 4. Statutory Ingredients in Common Law Change: Issues in the Development of Agency Doctrine Deborah DeMott 5. Property, Private Government and the Myth of Deregulation Paddy Ireland Commentary: Andrew Whittaker PART 2: CONTRACT TERMS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION 6. The Intractable Problem of the Interpretation of Legal Texts Lord Johan Steyn 7. The Interpretation of Contracts: Lord Hoffmann's Re-Statement Ewan McKendrick 8. The Uses of Ambiguity in Commercial Contracts: On Facilitating Re-Bargaining William T Allen and Galya Levy Commentary: Paul Lomas 9. Objectivity and Committed Contextualism in Interpretation Hugh Collins PART 3: ADAPTING COMMERCIAL LAW TO MODERN CONDITIONS 10. Documents and Contractual Congruence in International Trade Michael Bridge Commentary: William Blair, QC 11. The Dematerialisation of Money Market Instruments Joanna Benjamin Commentary: Guy Morton 12. Material Adverse Change Clauses After 9/11 Richard Hooley 13. Rethinking Insurable Interest John Lowry and Philip Rawlings Commentary: Sir Jonathan Mance and Adrian Hamilton, QC 14. The Challenge of Modern Bankruptcy Policy: The Judicial Response David Milman PART 4: COMMERCIAL TERMS FOR COMMERCIAL ENDS 15. Damages for Breach of Exclusive Jurisdiction Clauses Nik Yeo and Daniel Tan 16. Interpreting Employment Contracts: Judges, Employers, Workers Simon Deakin 17. Superpriority for Asset Acquisition Financing in Secured Transactions Law: Formalism or Functionalism? Catherine Walsh 18. The Floating Charge - An Elegy Riz Mokal PART 5: CONTROLLING MODERN MANAGEMENT 19. Contractual Modification of the Duties of a Trustee Michael Bryan 20. Relieving Directors' Breaches of Duty Rod Edmunds and John Lowry 21. Enron and the Long Shadow of Stat. 13 Eliz. Douglas Baird Commentary: Kevin Davis PART 6: MOVING FORWARD: LAW AND PRACTICE 22. Commercial Law and the Limits of the Black Letter Approach Anthony Duggan Commentary: David Gold 23. The Legal Academy's Contribution to the Development of Commercial Law: An Anglo-Canadian Perspective Jacob Ziegel Commentary: Tony King 24. Contracts, Contract Law and Reasonable Expectations Robert Bradgate