This collection of specialist essays, by leading practitioners and academics, discusses 40 issues at the cutting edge of international trade law. - Съдържа: Is harmonisation a new necessary evil? The future of harmonisation and new sources of international trade law / Loukas Mistelis -- The role of UNCITRAL / Gerold Herrmann -- Harmonising commercial law: keeping pace with business / Maria Livanos Cattaui -- The role of the European community / Stephen Weatherill -- The role of UNIDROIT / Herbert Kronke -- A perspective from the Hague conference / Hans van Loon -- Regulation and deregulation of international trade: introductory remarks / John H. Jackson -- Human rights, cosmopolitan democracy and the law of world trade organisation / Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann -- The management of environmental regulations by international organisations / Geert van Calster -- The rise and fall of the multilateral agreement for investment: lessons for the regulation of international business / Peter T. Muchlinski -- Multilateral and bilateral approaches to the internationalisation of competition law: an EU perspective / Marise Cremona -- Pleading action and defences under foreign law / Oskar Hartwieg -- Renvoi: a necessary evil or is it possible to abolish it by statute? / Kurt Siehr -- Property rights in the securities markets, computerisation and conflict of laws / Joanna Benjamin -- The Hague Global Jurisdiction and Judgments Preliminary draft convention / Catherine Kessedjian -- Modern perspectives of international jurisdiction / Konstantinos D. Kerameus -- Arbitrators' control of tactical and procedural issues in the 21st century / Julian D.M. Lew -- Arbitrators' discontents: of elephants and pornography / William W. Park -- Power of arbitrators to fill gaps and revise contracts to make sense / Klaus Peter Berger -- Uniformity in the CISG in the first decade of its application / Camilla Baasch Andersen -- The UNIDROIT principles of international commercial contracts and the harmonisation of international sales law / Micahel Joachim Bonell -- Rule-setting by private organisations, standardisation of contracts and harmonisation of international sales law / Alejandro M. Garro -- Revisiting the autonomous contract-transitional contract ''law,'' trends and supportive structures / Ralph Amissah -- Principles of contract law in electronic commerce / Raymond T. Nimmer -- The curious dynamics of free trade in western hemisphere: prospects for the FTAA / Joseph J. Norton -- Financing trade within a regional framework-legislative options: Clive M. Schmithoff on the unification of the law of international trade revised / Anna Morner -- Cross-border trade in financial services / Rosa Maria Lastra -- Payment systems in the 21st century / Robert C. Effros -- Recent trends in EC payment systems / Norbert Horn -- Managing defaulting multinationals within NAFTA / Jay Laurence Westbrook -- UNCITRAL projects; INSOL international/ Ron W. Marmer -- International insolvency at the crossroads -- a critical appraisal of current trends / Ian F. Fletcher -- Global harmonisation of intellectual property / Richard C. Wilder -- Intellectual property in the millennium round -- the TRIPS agreement after Seattle / Michael Blakeney.*