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Informationen zum Autor Dame Sarah Worthington KC (Hon) FBA is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Downing Professor Emeritus of the Laws of England at the University of Cambridge, and Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, UK Photograph courtesy of University of Cambridge. Zusammenfassung This book contains essays by legal experts which aim to prompt a critical and constructive reassessment of current commercial law and its practices. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION1. Aligning Commercial Law and Commercial PracticeSarah Worthington PART 1: GENERAL PRESSURES FOR CHANGE2. Globalization: Its Historical ContextRoss Cranston,KCCommentary: Catherine Newman, KC 3. Commercial Notions and Equitable PotionsSir John MummeryCommentary: Philip Wood 4. Statutory Ingredients in Common Law Change: Issues in the Development of Agency DoctrineDeborah DeMott5. Property, Private Government and the Myth of DeregulationPaddy IrelandCommentary: Andrew WhittakerPART 2: CONTRACT TERMS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION6. The Intractable Problem of the Interpretation of Legal TextsLord Johan Steyn7. The Interpretation of Contracts: Lord Hoffmann’s Re-StatementEwan McKendrick 8. The Uses of Ambiguity in Commercial Contracts: On Facilitating Re-BargainingWilliam T Allen and Galya LevyCommentary: Paul Lomas9. Objectivity and Committed Contextualism in InterpretationHugh CollinsPART 3: ADAPTING COMMERCIAL LAW TO MODERN CONDITIONS10. Documents and Contractual Congruence in International TradeMichael BridgeCommentary: William Blair, KC11. The Dematerialisation of Money Market InstrumentsJoanna BenjaminCommentary: Guy Morton12. Material Adverse Change Clauses After 9/11Richard Hooley13. Rethinking Insurable Interest John Lowry and Philip RawlingsCommentary: Sir Jonathan Mance and Adrian Hamilton, KC14. The Challenge of Modern Bankruptcy Policy: The Judicial ResponseDavid MilmanPART 4: COMMERCIAL TERMS FOR COMMERCIAL ENDS15. Damages for Breach of Exclusive Jurisdiction ClausesNik Yeo and Daniel Tan16. Interpreting Employment Contracts: Judges, Employers, Workers Simon Deakin17. Superpriority for Asset Acquisition Financing in Secured Transactions Law: Formalism or Functionalism?Catherine Walsh18. The Floating Charge – An ElegyRiz MokalPART 5: CONTROLLING MODERN MANAGEMENT19. Contractual Modification of the Duties of a TrusteeMichael Bryan20. Relieving Directors’ Breaches of DutyRod Edmunds and John Lowry21. Enron and the Long Shadow of Stat. 13 Eliz.Douglas BairdCommentary: Kevin DavisPART 6: MOVING FORWARD: LAW AND PRACTICE22. Commercial Law and the Limits of the Black Letter Approach Anthony DugganCommentary: David Gold23. The Legal Academy’s Contribution to the Development of Commercial Law: An Anglo-Canadian PerspectiveJacob ZiegelCommentary: Tony King24. Contracts, Contract Law and Reasonable Expectations Robert Bradgate...