Rules and networks : the legal culture of global business transactions

Half title page -- Half title verso -- Title page -- Title verso -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: The Legal Culture of Global Business Transactions -- Part One. The New Global Environment of Business Transactions -- 1. Sovereignty and Law in a Denationalised World -- Statehood in the National Constellation -- Challenges of and Responses to Denationalisation -- The New Architecture of Statehood -- Law Beyond the Nation-State -- References -- 2. The Institutional Structuring of Business Transactions -- The Management of Uncertainty in Business Transactions -- Institutional Features Affecting Inter-Firm Relationships -- Institutional Features, Business Environments and the Management of Business Transactions -- The Management of International Business Transactions -- References -- Part Two. The Role of Legal Rules: State Law and Unified Law -- 3. Global Law in Our High Speed Economy -- Lon Fuller - Theorist of Globalisation? -- High-Speed Dispute Resolution in a High-Speed Economy -- Conclusions -- References -- 4. Traditional Private and Commercial Law Rules under the Pressure of Global Transactions: The Role for an International Order -- The Legal Approach -- Rise of Global Transactions -- Types of Global Transactions -- The Changing Role of the Nation-State -- Internationalisation and Uniformity -- The Strategies of Private Parties -- Conclusion -- References -- Part Three. The Role of Autonomous Rules: The New Lex Mercatoria and Self-Regulation -- 5. Lex Mercatoria (New Law Merchant): Globalisation and International Self-regulation -- The Lex Mercatoria Approach to Globalisation -- Analysis of the Lex Mercatoria Approach to Globalisation -- Legitimacy of the Lex Mercatoria Approach to Globalisation -- Assessment and Conclusion -- References.