Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- 1. Modern Trends in English Commercial Law / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 2. Commercial Law in Action / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 3. International Business Law: A New Law Merchant / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 4. The Concept of Economic Law in England / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 5. The Law of International Trade and Investment / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 6. Commercial Treaties and International Trade Transactions in East-West Trade / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 7. Company and Commercial Law in Europe / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 8. Strict Law and Equity in the Law Relating to Negotiable Instruments / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 9. The Legal Organisation of Commerce and its Relation to the Social Conditions / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 10. American and European Commercial Law / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 11. Export Law — Then and Now / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 12. The New Sources of the Law of International Trade / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 13. The Law of International Trade, Its Growth, Formulation and Operation / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 14. The Unification of the Law of International Trade / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 15. The Unification or Harmonisation of Law By Means of Standard Contracts and General Conditions / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 16. The Unification of the Law of International Trade / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 17. The Law of International Trade / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 18. Nature and Evolution of the Transnational Law of Commercial Transactions / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 19. The Codification of the Law of International Trade / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 20. Frustration of International Contracts of Sale in English and Comparative Law / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 21. The Risk of Loss in Transit in International Sales / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 22. Agency in International Trade: A Study in Comparative Law / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 23. The Development of the Combined Transport Document* / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 24. Legal Aspects of Monetary Problems in Export Transactions / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 25. Standard Contracts and the Protection of the Weaker Party in International Trade Relations / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 26. Hardship and Intervener Clauses / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 27. Countertrade / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 28. Discrepancy of Documents in Letter of Credit Transactions / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 29. The New Uniform Customs For Letters of Credit / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 30. International and Procedural Aspects of Letters of Credit / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 31. The International Government Loan / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 32. Conflict Avoidance in Practice and Theory / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 33. The Claim of Sovereign Immunity in the Law of International Trade / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 34. International Trade Law and Private International Law / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 35. The Application of Foreign Law in Private International Law / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 36. New Light on the Proper Law / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 37. Conflict of Laws Issues Relating to Letters of Credit: An English Perspective / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 38. The Limits of Party Autonomy / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 39. Arbitration: The Supervisory Jurisdiction of the Courts / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 40. Defective Arbitration Clauses / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 41. Universalism and Regionalism in International Commercial Arbitration / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 42. The Jurisdiction of the Arbitrator / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 43. Extrajudicial Dispute Settlement / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 44. Finality of Arbitral Awards and Judicial Review / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 45. Arbitration and EEC Law / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 46. The Origin of the Joint-Stock Company / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 47. The International Corporation / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 48. Multinationals in Court / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 49. The Multinational Enterprise in the United Kingdom / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 50. The Success of the Harmonisation of European Company Law / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 51. The Wholly Owned and the Controlled Subsidiary / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 52. The Science of Comparative Law / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 53. How the English Discovered the Private Company / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 54. Should Precedents Be Binding? / Chia-Jui Cheng -- Back Matter.

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