“It adopts a useful, modern approach to teaching the young generation of lawyers how to deal with the increasing internationalisation of law.” - Uniform Law Review/Revue de Droit Uniforme (review of the 1st edition)
Volume 4 of this new edition deals with movable and intangible property law. The book addresses the transformation of the models of movable property in commercial and financial transactions between professionals in the international flow of goods, services, money, information, and technology. In this transnational legal order, the emphasis on the new law merchant or modern lex mercatoria of movable property turns to risk management, asset liquidity, and transactional and payment finality.
Particular attention is given to the notion of assets and asset classes, the inclusion of monetary claims, the transformation of assets in production and distribution chains, and the type of user, income and enjoyment rights that can be established in them, when they become proprietary, what that means, the role of party autonomy in the creation and operation of these rights, and how they are handled between professional participants and upon a sale to consumers.
The volume compares common law and civil law concepts - the one being geared to improving value, the other to consumption. It then identifies their relevance especially in modern finance, and concludes by indicating future directions.
This magisterial work is made up of 6 volumes. Used independently, each volume allows the reader to delve into a particular topic. Alternatively, all volumes can be read together for a comprehensive overview of transnational comparative commercial, financial and trade law.
By:
Jan H Dalhuisen (King’s College London UK)
Imprint: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 9th edition
Dimensions:
Height: 248mm,
Width: 168mm,
Spine: 32mm
Weight: 1.040kg
ISBN: 9781509978137
ISBN 10: 1509978135
Pages: 504
Publication Date: 25 June 2026
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part I: Ownership, Possession and Limited, Future, Conditional or Temporary Proprietary Rights in Chattels and Intangible Assets 1. Introduction 2. The Types of Proprietary Rights in Civil Law 3. The Types of Proprietary Rights in Common Law: The Practical Differences from Civil Law. Modern Functional Theories 4. Transfer of Proprietary Rights in Chattels in Civil and Common Law 5. Proprietary Rights in Intangible Assets in Civil and Common Law 6. Trusts. Constructive and Resulting Trusts, Tracking and Tracing. Agency. The Civil Law Response 7. Secured Transactions and Conditional or Finance Sales. Floating Charges 8. Private International Law Aspects of Chattels 9. Private International Law Aspects of Assignments 10. The Modern Law of Chattels and Intangibles 11. The European Draft Common Frame of Reference 12. Uniform or Harmonised Statutory or Treaty Law. The Alternative of Transnationalisation and the Need for and Emergence of a Dynamic Movable Property Law Part 2: Negotiable Documents of Title and Negotiable Instruments 1. The Role of Documents 2. Negotiable Instruments 3. The Dematerialisation of Documents of Title and Negotiable Instruments; Electronic Transfers Part 3: Investment Securities 1. The Different Types of Shares and Bonds 2. The Transnationalisation of Custodial and Settlement Systems and its Opportunities
Jan H Dalhuisen is Professor of Law at King's College London, UK, and Chair in Transnational Financial Law at the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon.
