Arbitration in international finance remains relatively rare but creates special problems in asset backed financings and in matters of set-off and netting where findings of the tribunal concerning ranking affect third parties or may also intrude on bankruptcy proceedings. A new arbitration...

The question of expropriation is at the heart of modern foreign investment law, yet remains an area of great uncertainty and ambiguity. Neither treaty law nor existing jurisprudence provides clarity on the questions of when government action amounts to an expropriation or what to do if does.This...

This presentation for the Philip Jessup Conference at King's College London in 2016 deals with the transnationalization of commercial and financial law and its sources, the hierarchy between them, the analogy with public international law finding and application, the issues of...

Dutch Abstract: In een globaliserende wereld presenteert het commerciele en financiele recht een aantal existentiele uitdagingen speciaal in codificatie landen. Deze bijdrage betreft die uitdaging in Nederland met betekking tot het nationale systeem denken onder de nieuwe codificatie van 1992 en...

Banking regulation has undergone substantial reforms after the 2008 financial crisis. In spite of these developments, European banks, especially, continue to experience serious difficulties. Central banks still operate in crisis mode and banks do not serve as intermediaries aimed at providing...

This presentation deals with the nature of the commercial contract and how it operates in the transnational commercial and financial legal order. It discusses and compares the common and civil law contract model and finds that transnationallly in professional dealings the common law model is...

Securing contract performance is a very different matter in common and civil law. It goes to the issue of contract validity, defenses and excuses and raises in particular issues when in international transaction a particular domestic law has been chosen by the parties. What does it mean?

Dutch Abstract: The essentie is dat ons moderne recht van roerende goederen niet langer behoorlijk kan functioneren als het gebaseerd blijft op de notie van individualisering en identificatie van individuele vermogensbestandelen. In tegendeel, het behoort gebaserd te zijn op de notie van stromen...

This contribution explores the manner of and methodology behind the transnationalisation of commercial and financial law and its regulation and seeks to establish an academic framework that explains and makes this process more transparent. It tests the findings in four areas: the development of...