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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.
List of contents
- I: Negotiability, Negotiable Instruments, and the Law of Bills, Notes, and Cheques
- II: General Law and Negotiable Instruments: A Brief Historical Perspective
- III: Choice of Law Question, Three Major Developments, and the Need for Harmonization
- IV: Negotiable Instruments Choice-of-Law Rules in the Various Systems
- V: The Foreign Element and Party Autonomy in Negotiable Instruments Law
- VI: Choice-of-Law Rules in the Absence of Party Autonomy: The Most Significant Relationship Principle
- VII: The Boundaries of the Proposed Argument
- VIII: International Negotiable Instruments in the Electronic Age
- XI: Conclusion
About the author
Benjamin Geva is Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He specializes and teaches in the areas of commercial, financial, and banking law, and has published extensively on these topics, including in leading legal journals and Bank Collections and Payment Transactions (Oxford University Press, 2001). Under the IMF technical assistance program, he has advised and drafted key financial sector and payment systems legislation for the authorities of several countries, and he is also a member of MOCOMILA.
Sagi Peari is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and the Director of the Business Law Major at the University of Western Australia Law School where he teaches private law, commercial law and their cross-border dimensions. He has published extensively on these topics, including articles in leading legal journals and a monograph, The Foundation of Choice-of-Law: Choice & Equality (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Summary
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.
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This book provides a comprehensive and thorough analysis of the question of applicable law to negotiable instruments... The authors make concrete suggestions for reform and contemplate
