International Monetary Law Issues for the New Millennium

This unique collaboration between the top academic and practitioner monetary lawyers from around the world takes the first steps towards filling the current gap in the literature for a truly systematic text on the modern international monetary law system. It tackles all of the key issues for practitioners in the field today, drawing upon the experience of its expert contributors, many working within the most important international banking institutions. An essential purchase for all lawyers worldwide specialising in international monetary law, it will also appeal to those from other professions and disciplines with an interest in financial institutions or the international monetary system.

1 - A New Architecture for the Global Financial Market: an Outline of Legal Issues
2 - International Jurisdiction over International Capital Flows and the Role of the IMF: Plus Ça Change
3 - The Changing Roles of the Bretton Woods Institutions: Evolving Concepts of Conditionality
4 - The Prevention and Resolution of International Financial Crises - A Perspective from the International Monetary Fund
5 - Monetary Sovereignty Today
6 - European Monetary Law: The Transition to the Euro and Continuity of Contracts
7 - The New Monetary Law of the European Union and its Scope of Application
8 - Legal Consequences of the Single Currency: The Case for a European Law of Contracts
9 - First Experiences with the Euro in Germany
10 - Exchange rate policies in the ESCB
11 - Representation of the EC in the IMF
12 - The Exchange Rate Regime between Euroland and Other European Countries (with a Postscript on Norway)
13 - Central Bank Independence and Accountability in the Light of the EMU
14 - Central Bank Reform: the Reserve Bank of New Zealand
15 - The Role of the Central Bank in a Crisis Environment: the Experience of Hong Kong and Taiwan, 1997-99
16 - International Harmonization of Regulatory and Supervisory Frameworks
17 - Deposit Insurance Schemes: Reconciling Market Discipline with Financial Stability
18 - Core Legal Principles across Major Large-value Credit Transfer Systems
19 - Electronic Money: a North American Perspective
20 - Electronic Money in Japan
21 - Interference of Public Law in the Performance of International Monetary Obligations
22 - Foreign Currency Obligations in Domestic Law
23 - The Scope of Lex Monetae in International Transactions: A United States Perspective
24 - Conflicts of Laws Issues of International Payments
25 - The Governing Law in Legal Agreements Used by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in its Banking Operations
26 - Money and Arbitration
27 - The Euro and the Future of Index Clauses

Mario Giovanoli is General Counsel at the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland and Chairman of the International Law Association's Monetary Committee