Subjects:

Commercial Law

Contents:

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

2. Comparative Financial Law: A Classification of the Worlds' Jurisdictions

Philip R Wood

3. The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts and the Principles of European Contract Law: A Comparison

4 Eight Principles of European Contract Law

Ole Lando

5. Harmonization of Private Laws in Federal Systems of Government: Canada, the USA, and Australia

Jacob S Ziegel

6. Linked Contracts

Jan Hellner

7. Breach of Contract and Recoverable Losses

Jan Ramberg

8. Local Authorities and Swaps: Undermining the Market?

Ewan McKendrick

9. The Necessity of a Unitary Law of Tracing

Peter Birks

10. When is an Agent's Authority Irrevocable?

F M B Reynolds

11. The Bifocal World of International Sales: Vienna and Non-Vienna

Michael G Bridge

12. 'Banking Law' in the Twenty-First Century: The Dynamics of International Regulatory Convergence

Joseph L Norton

13. Liability for Foreign Branch Deposits in English law

William Blair

14. Banking Networks

Ross Cranston

15. The 'Best Practices' Approach to the Uniformity of International Commercial Law: the UCP 500 and the NAFTA Implementation Experience

Boris Kozolchyk

16. Models-Based Regulation of bank Capital

Hal S Scott

17. Juggling with Norms: the Conflict Between Collective and Individual Rights Under Insolvency Law

Ian S Fletcher

18. Universal Participation in Transnational Bankruptcies

Jay Lawrence Westbrook

19. Some Observations on the Law Relating to Preferences

D D Prentice

20. Commercial Morality and Public Policy as 'Principles' of Corporate Insolvency Law

Roman Tomasic

21. Changes to Personal Property Security Law in Italy: A Comparative and Functional Approach

Guido Ferrarini

22. The Internationalization of Secured Financing Law: the Spreading Influence of the Concepts UCC, Article 9 and its Progeny

Ronald C C Cuming

23. The Protection of Commercial Interests Under the European Convention on Human Rights

Peter Duffy

24. Interest on Money Awards in International Arbitration

Julian D M Lew

Roy Goode Publications 1962-1996

Index

This is a collection of essays written in honour of Roy Goode, the Norton Rose Professor of English Law at Oxford, and highly esteemed commercial law scholar. The essayists are themselves a distinguished international group of the world's most distinguished commercial lawyers.

The topics covered include international contracts and sales, credit and security, and commercial arbitration. This is a truly international collection which will be of great interest to scholars of commercial law world-wide, and to practitioners working in the areas of finance and international banking.