Съдържа: The nature, history, and sources of commercial law; The conflict of laws in commercial transactions; International law as it affects private law conventions governing cross-border commercial transactions; Comparative law and its relevance to transnational commercial law; The harmonization of commercial law, instruments and institutions; The harmonization process; International sales and the Vienna Sales Convention; Agency and distribution; International bank payment undertakings; Financial leasing: the 1988 UNIDROIT Convention and the draft UNIDROIT model law; Receivables financing: the UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring and the United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade; International interests in mobile equipment and the Cape Town Convention and Aviation Protocol: adding a new dimension to international law-making; Transactions in securities; Restatements of contract law; Harmonization and co-operation in cross-border insolvency; International civil procedure; International commercial arbitration; The sphere of application of a convention, the role of the conflict of laws, determining the connecting factor, co-existence and conflicts of instruments; Uniformity in transnational commercial law; Getting to yes: practical and political problems of harmonization.*