PART I. HARMONISATION1: Reflections on the Harmonisation of Commercial Law2: International Restatements of Contract and English Law3: International Restatements and National Law4: Contract and Commercial Law: The Logic and Limits of Harmonisation5: The Protection of Interests in Movables in Transnational Commercial Law6: Insularity or Leadership? The Role of the United Kingdom in the Harmonisation of Commercial Law7: The Treatment of Intangible Assets Under the Cape Town Convention and Protocols8: From Acorn to Oak Tree: the Development of the Cape Town Convention and Protocols9: The Priority Rules Under the Cape Town Convention and Protocols10: Battening Down Your Security Interests: How the Shipping Industry Can Benefit from the UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment11: The Power to Dispose Under the Cape Town Convention and Aircraft Protocol12 Abstract Payment Undertakings and the Rule of the International Chamber of Commerce: PART II. PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW13: Security Entitlement as Collateral and Conflict of Laws14: The hague Convention on Intermediated Securities15: The Cape Town Convention and Protocols and the Conflict of Laws16: Private Commercial Law Conventions and Public and Private International Law: The Radical Approach of the Cape Town Convention 2001 and Its Protocols17: The Assignments of Pure Intangibles in the Conflict of LawsPART III. USAGE AND THE LEX MERCATORIA18: Usage and Its Reception in Transnational Commercial Law19: A New International Lex Mercatoria?20: Rule, Practice, and Pragmatism in Transnational Commercial Law21: Is the Lex Mercatoria Autonomous?PART IV. DISPUTE RESOLUTION22: The role of the Lex Loci Arbitri in International Commercial Arbitration23: The Adaption of English Law to International Commercial Arbitration24: Litigation on Arbitration? The Influence of the Dispute Resolution Procedure on Substantive Rights25: The End of an Era: A Tribute to Jacob Ziegel.