Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial and Trade Law, Volume 1: The New Lex Mercatoria and its Sources

Jan H. Dalhuisen

Hart Publishing | 2026 | Hardcover | ISBN 9781509977987

The opening volume of the ninth edition sets out the theoretical foundation of the whole work: the sources of the modern lex mercatoria and the case for a transnational legal order in commerce and finance. Dalhuisen argues that cross-border commercial and financial dealings are governed by an autonomous legal order that neither national law nor treaty law fully captures. Essential reading before any of the five volumes that follow.

Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial and Trade Law, Volume 2: International Arbitration

Jan H. Dalhuisen

Hart Publishing | 2026 | Hardcover | ISBN 9781509978038

Volume 2 treats international arbitration as the principal forum in which transnational commercial law is applied and developed. It examines the arbitrator's mandate, the law applicable to the merits, and the tension between party autonomy and national procedural control. Of direct use to counsel and tribunals deciding what law actually governs a cross-border dispute.

Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial and Trade Law, Volume 3: Transnational Contract Law

Jan H. Dalhuisen

Hart Publishing | 2026 | Hardcover | ISBN 9781509978120

A comparative treatment of contract formation, interpretation, performance and excuse across civil and common law traditions, oriented throughout towards professional cross-border dealings rather than consumer contracting. Volume 3 is the practical core of the set for transactional lawyers.

Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial and Trade Law, Volume 4: Transnational Movable Property Law

Jan H. Dalhuisen

Hart Publishing | 2026 | Hardcover | ISBN 9781509978137

Movable property remains the least harmonised field in cross-border commerce, and the one where transactions most often fail. Volume 4 covers title transfer, security interests, retention of title and the treatment of proprietary rights when goods cross a border. Indispensable for secured lending and international sales practice.

Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial and Trade Law, Volume 5: Financial Products and Services

Jan H. Dalhuisen

Hart Publishing | 2026 | Hardcover | ISBN 9781509978182

Volume 5 turns from goods to financial products: payment and settlement, negotiable instruments, securities, derivatives, and the intermediated holding of financial assets. It explains the legal architecture beneath modern financial markets rather than only the regulation layered on top of it.

Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial and Trade Law, Volume 6: Financial Risk and Regulation

Jan H. Dalhuisen

Hart Publishing | 2026 | Hardcover | ISBN 9781509978236

The concluding volume addresses financial risk, financial stability and the proper role of regulation, including the limits of what supervision can achieve. It closes the set by returning to the question raised in Volume 1: who, in the end, makes the law that governs global finance.

The Sale of Goods, 5th Edition

Michael Bridge

Oxford University Press | 2026 | Hardcover | ISBN 9780198959090

The standard scholarly account of the English law of sale, revised and brought up to date. Bridge treats the Sale of Goods Act alongside the common law of contract, with sustained attention to international sales and the interaction with the CISG. The reference text where the governing law is English.

Schlechtriem & Schwenzer: Commentary on the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG), 5th Edition

Schlechtriem & Schwenzer (eds.)

Oxford University Press | 2022 | Hardcover | ISBN 9780198868675

The most cited commentary on the CISG, article by article, drawing on case law from courts and tribunals across more than ninety contracting states. This edition adds thematic chapters on data trading and on the interaction between the Incoterms and the Convention. If a contract is silent on governing law and both parties sit in contracting states, this is the book that decides the outcome.

Benjamin's Sale of Goods, 11th Edition with 1st Supplement

Sweet & Maxwell | 2021 | Hardcover | ISBN 9780414101944

The Common Law Library's practitioner authority on sale of goods, covering domestic and international sales, documentary credits, and the carriage documents that make cross-border sale work. Supplied with its supplement.

Incoterms 2020 Handbook: Effecting Deliveries in Challenging Times

Kluwer Law International | 2021 | Hardcover | ISBN 9789403520766

The Incoterms have been used in contracts of sale for close to a century, yet there is remarkably little practical legal guidance on how to deploy them without creating disputes. This handbook works through each term in its trade and transport context, written for advanced users rather than beginners.

Allocation of Liability for Dangerous Goods under International Trade Law: CIF and FOB Contracts

Hart Publishing | 2022 | Hardcover | ISBN 9781509950195

A focused study of where liability lands when dangerous cargo is carried under CIF and FOB terms — the point at which sale law, carriage law and insurance meet and frequently contradict one another. Narrow in scope, decisive in the cases it governs.

UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts: An Article-by-Article Commentary, 2nd Edition

Kluwer Law International | 2021 | Hardcover | ISBN 9789403503370

The UNIDROIT Principles offer a neutral contractual regime for cross-border dealings, often as a compromise between civil and common law solutions, and have been applied in hundreds of arbitral awards and court decisions. This commentary treats them article by article, as a working instrument rather than an academic model.

Furmston and Tolhurst on Contract Formation: Law and Practice, 3rd Edition

Furmston and Tolhurst

Oxford University Press | 2023 | Hardcover | ISBN 9780192868084

Formation is where most commercial disputes are actually decided, and where drafting most often fails. This is the leading dedicated treatment: offer and acceptance, certainty, intention, and the messy reality of contracts concluded through negotiation, standard forms and exchanges of documents.

Contractual Indemnities, 2nd Edition

Wayne Courtney

Hart Publishing | 2026 | Hardcover | ISBN 9781509984121

Indemnity clauses appear in nearly every commercial agreement and are among the least well understood. Courtney's second edition analyses their construction, scope and enforcement across common law jurisdictions, distinguishing indemnity from guarantee and from ordinary damages. A short book that repays itself on the first negotiation.

A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, 5th Edition

Kenneth A. Adams

American Bar Association | 2023 | Paperback | ISBN 9781639052516

Adams sets out, with unusual rigour, how contract language should be built: which words to use, which to abandon, and why traditional drafting conventions cause the litigation they were meant to prevent. Not a form book — a discipline. The standard reference for anyone who drafts in English.

Governing Law Risks in International Business Transactions

Philip Wood

Oxford University Press | 2022 | Hardcover | ISBN 9780192888648

Wood ranks the world's legal systems against thirteen risk tests — contract predictability, freedom of contract, insolvency regimes, courts and litigation among them — across all 320 jurisdictions, grouped into eight families of law. It answers the question every cross-border contract poses and few lawyers analyse properly: what does it actually cost to choose this law?

Asymmetric Jurisdiction Clauses

Oxford University Press | 2023 | Hardcover | ISBN 9780198868040

Clauses giving one party alone the right to choose the forum are widespread in international finance and commerce, and their enforceability has been unsettled for close to a decade across EU and English law. This is the dedicated treatment of how to balance certainty, flexibility and risk when drafting them.

Executory Contracts in Insolvency Law: A Global Guide, 2nd Edition

Edward Elgar Publishing | 2023 | Hardcover | ISBN 9781803923413

What happens to a contract still being performed when one party enters insolvency is one of the few questions that can destroy a cross-border transaction outright. This global guide compares the answer across jurisdictions, which is precisely how the question presents itself in practice.

Handbook of ICC Arbitration: Commentary, Precedents, Materials, 5th Edition

Sweet & Maxwell | 2021 | Hardcover | ISBN 9780414097407

Article-by-article commentary on the 2021 ICC Rules, with case law, procedural checklists, model clauses and a dedicated treatment of multi-party and multi-contract proceedings. The working reference for counsel and arbitrators in ICC proceedings.

Handbook of UNCITRAL Arbitration, 4th Edition

Sweet & Maxwell | 2022 | Hardcover | ISBN 9780414100213

A rule-by-rule guide to the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules across both commercial and investment arbitration, following the process from clause to award. This edition incorporates the UNCITRAL Expedited Arbitration Rules in force since September 2021.

Cambridge Compendium of International Commercial and Investment Arbitration (3 Volumes)

Cambridge University Press | 2023 | Hardcover | ISBN 9781108378406

A three-volume scholarly survey treating commercial and investment arbitration as one field rather than two, covering the tribunal's jurisdiction, the stakeholders, and the interaction with EU law. The reference set for a research collection.

Financial Technology and Digital Commercial Law

Oxford University Press | 2023 | Hardcover | ISBN 9780192868763

Blockchain, smart contracts, cryptoassets and RegTech are no longer a specialism at the edge of commercial law; they are reshaping how obligations are formed, transferred and enforced. This volume examines what digital instruments do to established commercial law doctrine — and where doctrine holds.