This book provides a comprehensive and thorough analysis of the legal framework for the treatment of international negotiable instruments. It considers the approach within and across major legal systems and pinpoints the key distinctions for the application of choice of law rules.

This comprehensive Research Handbook examines the continuum between private ordering and state regulation in the lex mercatoria, highlighting constancy and change in this dynamic and evolving system in order to offer an in-depth discussion of international commercial contract law. International scholars from a range of jurisdictions and legal cultures across Africa, North America and Europe, dissect a plethora of contract types, including sale, insurance, shipping, credit, negotiable instruments and agency against the backdrop of key legal regimes commonly chosen in international agreements.

In The End of Negotiable Instruments: Bringing Payments Systems Law Out of the Past, author James Rogers challenges the basic assumptions of the law of checks and notes and its history, and provides a well-reasoned account of how the law could be changed to better suit the evolution of new payment technologies. The modern American law of payment systems is in disarray. Efforts to create a unified body of law for payment systems have so far been unsuccessful. Part of the reason for that failure is the assumption that the existing law works well for the traditional paper-based check system, and that problems have been created only by the evolution of new technologies. The End of Negotiable Instruments argues that this assumption is unfounded. The basic law of checks is itself anachronistic. There are no other books that undertake a similar analysis—there are legal treatises on the law of checks and notes, but all of them take for granted the basic assumptions challenged in this book. Several articles were published in the late twentieth century concerning the dispute over the application of certain doctrines of traditional negotiable instruments law to modern consumer finance transactions, but none of this literature went on to consider the broader question of whether there is anything worthwhile left in negotiable instruments law.

This update of the guidelines published in 2001 sets forth the underlying framework for the Reserves Data Template and provides operational advice for its use. The updated version also includes three new appendices aimed at assisting member countries in reporting the required data.

Bills of exchange and bankers' documentary credits are the fundamental financial instruments and mechanism of settlement for international trading transactions. Bills of Exchange and Bankers' Documentary Credits, 4th Edition provides a highly readable, yet in-depth account of the law and practice relating to bills of exchange, cheques and bankers documentary credits. The authors explain how the Bills of Exchange and other instruments work in practice, drawing particular attention to the problems which are likely to arise and how best to resolve them. Furthermore, because the parties to financial transactions are often based in different countries, it deals with jurisdiction and choice of law to enable you to make the most informed and profitable choices.

An in-depth treatise on Article 3 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Specific chapters cover forms of transfer, contractual obligation of parties, electronic fund transfers and more. The price quoted for this work covers one year's worth of service. The upkeep price is $326.

This book comprehensively explores the revolution in the use of electronic negotiable instruments and negotiable documents through a thorough examination of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records. The Model Law, a product of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, provides the most current and complete law for electronic negotiable instruments. To understand the short 19 articles and explanatory notes of the Model Law requires an extensive background not only in the current practices of digital trade, but also a thorough understanding of the substantive law of negotiable instruments and negotiable documents. This book provides a full and understandable guide through these areas of the law. The authors, all of whom were instrumental in the formation of the Model Law, bring their years of experience in international commercial law to this in-depth and practical examination of this important text. The book is an invaluable resource both for novice as well as experienced commercial, maritime and banking lawyers, for economic policy makers, supply chain management specialists, and for anyone interested in keeping abreast of the fast-changing world of digital trade.