Fundamental Concepts of Commercial Law

PART I. INSTALMENT CREDIT LAW 1: Some Problems of Hire-Purchase Law 2: Reflections on Credit Law PART II. CONTRACT LAW 3: Abstract Payment Undertakings 4: Inalienable Rights? 5: Contractual Prohibitions Against Assignment PART III. CONCEPTS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY 6: Ownership and Obligation in Commercial Transactions 7: The Nature and Transfer of Rights in Dematerialised and Immobilised Securities 8: Are Intangible Assets Fungible? PART IV. COMMERCIAL LAW 9: Concepts of Payment in Relation to the Expropriation or Freezing of Bank Deposits 10: The Concept and Implications of a Market in Commercial Law 11: The Shaping of Commercial Law 12: The Codification of Commercial Law 13: Removing the Obstacles to Commercial Law Reform 14: The Res Cogitans: Communis Error Facit Ius? PART V. SECURED TRANSACTIONS 15: Charges over Book Debts: A Missed Opportunity 16: Charge-backs and Legal Fictions 17: The Case for the Abolition of the Floating Charge 18: The Modernisation of Personal Property Security Law PART VI. UNJUST ENRICHMENT AND RESTITUTION 19: The Bank's Right to Recover Money Paid on a Stopped Cheque 20: Property and Unjust Enrichment 21: Proprietary Restitutionary Claims PART VII. CORPORATE INSOLVENCY 22: Is the Law too Favourable to Secured Creditors? 23: The Avoidance of Transactions in Insolvency Proceedings and Restiutionary Defences 24: The Perpetual Trustee Case PART VIII. Occupational Pensions 25: Defining and Protecting the Pension Promise 26: Occupational Pensions: Securing the Pension Promise PART IX. LEGAL EDUCATION 27: The Academic Stage of Legal Education: A Non-Vocational View 28: The Teaching and Applications of Fundamental Concepts of Commerical Law 29: The European Law School