Transnational Commercial Law, 1st ed. 2019 Corporate and Financial Law Series

Transnational Commercial Law is a textbook that deals predominantly with substantive legal contract rules that apply across borders and are designed to govern cross-border business transactions. This is an emerging field of research, teaching and practical interest in international trade and commercial law, requiring reference to multiple areas of law, including both private and public international law, the law of specific commercial transactions and arbitration. For the first time Transnational Commercial Law combines all these relevant issues in one book, and provides a basis for further study as well as detailed, cutting edge academic analyses. It provides a compact yet accessible guide to the most important cornerstones of this evolving legal discipline.

PART I TRANSNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW AND ITS SOURCES.- 1. Defining the subject matter.- 2. Law making 1 – The hierarchy of norms.- 3. Law making 2 - Law and non-law.- 4. The public/private law divide - why does it matter?.- 5. The sources of transnational commercial law.- 6. The lex mercatoria debate.- 7. Private international law.- Part II TRANSNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW IN ACTION.- 8. Selected sources of transnational law.- 9. Selected sources of transnational law – Other contract types.- 10. Aspects of corporate and finance law.- 11. Motivations behind choice of law.- 12. Transnational law in arbitration.- 13. Transnational law in state courts.- 14. Transnational commercial law in reform.- 15. Outlook – The future of transnational commercial law.

Maren Heidemann is a qualified lawyer (Germany) and Associate Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at School of Advanced Studies, University of London, England, United Kingdom 

• Sets the actual contractual rules in the wider context of the general legal framework and situates it within the theoretical debate
  
• Brings together a wide range of topics from contract law, public international and corporate law and regulation
  
• A truly international perspective on transnational commercial law in a globalised world
  
• More concise and focussed than other books in the market