Contractual knowledge : one hundred years of legal experimentation in global markets /

Contractual knowledge : one hundred years of legal experimentation in global markets / edited by Gr?egoire Mallard and J?erĀ”ome Sgard. - Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xix, 403 pages) : illustrations. - Cambridge studies in law and society .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Half title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1 Contractual knowledge: one hundred years of legal experimentation in global markets; Part I Contractual and sovereign debt obligations: the evolution of contractual provisions; 2 Financial markets, international organizations and conditional lending: a long-term perspective; 3 When governments write contracts: policy and expertise in sovereign debt markets 4 Market rules: social conventions, legal fictions, and the organization of sovereign debt markets in the long twentieth centuryPart II Consolidating international organizations: the mobilization of social capital and the standardization of interpretive processes; 5 A tale of three cities: the construction of international commercial arbitration; 6 Constructing a transatlantic marketplace of disputes on the symbolic foundations of international justice; 7 The duty to repair in practice: the hundred years history of a legal concept 8 The changing ideas about valuation mechanisms in the interwar period: Toeplitz, Marlio and the 'Great transformation'Part III Structuring fields: market dominance, complementarity and differentiation in complex institutional ecologies; 9 The rise and fall of trade and monetary legal orders: from the interwar period to today's global imbalances; 10 Credit ratings and global economic governance: non-price valuation in financial markets; 11 Contracts and private law in the emerging ecology of international lawmaking; Index

At a micro level, this collection unveils the contractual knowledge that led to the globalization of markets over the last century.



9781316487280 9781316442876 9781316487716


Export sales contracts--History.
Contracts--History.
Contracts--Interpretation and construction.
Contracts (International law)


Electronic Books.

K1030 / .C668 2016