Commercial law is very largely the story of the way in which commercial law has constantly had to evolve in order to accommodate new techniques designed by imaginative businessmen and their lawyers to facilitate domestic and cross-border trade and make it more efficient. In a wide-ranging survey, Professor Goode will look at the evolution of negotiable instruments and documents of title; the move from certificated to dematerialised and intermediated investment securities; and the problems of cross-border transactions and their resolution through international instruments, such as the Convention on contracts for the international sale of goods. The lecture will conclude with a brief account of the highly successful Cape Town Convention on international interests in mobile equipment, and its associated Protocols as an exemplar of how problems can be overcome (more, registration).
First posted 2015-01-08 14:07:51
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