Contents:
s harmonisation a new necessary evil? The future of harmonisation and new sources of international trade law / Loukas Mistelis --
The role of UNCITRAL / Gerold Herrmann
Harmonising commercial law: keeping pace with business / Maria Livanos Cattaui
The role of the European community / Stephen Weatherill
The role of UNIDROIT / Herbert Kronke
A perspective from the Hague conference / Hans van Loon
Regulation and deregulation of international trade: introductory remarks / John H. Jackson
Human rights, cosmopolitan democracy and the law of world trade organisation / Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann
The management of environmental regulations by international organisations / Geert van Calster
The rise and fall of the multilateral agreement for investment: lessons for the regulation of international business / Peter T. Muchlinski
Multilateral and bilateral approaches to the internationalisation of competition law: an EU perspective / Marise Cremona
Pleading action and defences under foreign law / Oskar Hartwieg
Renvoi: a necessary evil or is it possible to abolish it by statute? / Kurt Siehr
Property rights in the securities markets, computerisation and conflict of laws / Joanna Benjamin
The Hague Global Jurisdiction and Judgments Preliminary draft convention / Catherine Kessedjian
Modern perspectives of international jurisdiction / Konstantinos D. Kerameus
Arbitrators' control of tactical and procedural issues in the 21st century / Julian D.M. Lew
Arbitrators' discontents: of elephants and pornography / William W. Park
Power of arbitrators to fill gaps and revise contracts to make sense / Klaus Peter Berger
Uniformity in the CISG in the first decade of its application / Camilla Baasch Andersen
The UNIDROIT principles of international commercial contracts and the harmonisation of international sales law / Micahel Joachim Bonell
Rule-setting by private organisations, standardisation of contracts and harmonisation of international sales law / Alejandro M. Garro
Revisiting the autonomous contract-transitional contract "law," trends and supportive structures / Ralph Amissah
Principles of contract law in electronic commerce / Raymond T. Nimmer
The curious dynamics of free trade in western hemisphere: prospects for the FTAA / Joseph J. Norton
Financing trade within a regional framework-legislative options: Clive M. Schmithoff on the unification of the law of international trade revised / Anna Morner
Cross-border trade in financial services / Rosa Maria Lastra
Payment systems in the 21st century / Robert C. Effros
Recent trends in EC payment systems / Norbert Horn
Managing defaulting multinationals within NAFTA / Jay Laurence Westbrook
UNCITRAL projects; INSOL international/ Ron W. Marmer
International insolvency at the crossroads
a critical appraisal of current trends / Ian F. Fletcher
Global harmonisation of intellectual property / Richard C. Wilder
Intellectual property in the millennium round
the TRIPS agreement after Seattle / Michael Blakeney.