Multiple, overlapping, and systemically interactive normative orders regulate commerce, trade, and finance. A diverse set of state and non-state actors produce this plurality of rules governing markets. How these rules operate, what they are, whether some of them deserve recognition as what...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 COVID-19 and Business Law: Challenges and Opportunities -- 2 The Impact of COVID-19 on Contractual Obligations in Malaysia -- 3 COVID-19 and Its Influence on Selected Employment Relationship Issues -- 4 Look What COVID-19 Unveiled: The Lack of Insolvency...

This paper focuses on the legal transaction costs which operate as a significant non-tariff barrier to mutually beneficial exchange in trade and investment between nations. It sets out the role, functions and advantages of the international regime for commercial arbitration, based on the...