Shares and other securities in the conflict of laws / Maisie Ooi.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Conflict of laws -- Securities -- Great Britain.

International finance -- Law and legislation.

1. The present state of the common law

2. Analysis of choice of law rules which have been applied to shares

3. What is a share?

4. Transfers or assignments and pledges of shares

5. Characterization

6. The indirect holding system

7. Analysis of choice of law approaches for the indirect holding system

8. Assignments and characterization

9. The effect of insolvency

10. Statutory intervention

11. Revised Articles 8 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code

12. European legislation

13. Proposed Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in respect of Securities Held with an Intermediary

14. Comparison of choice of law treatments

15. Reformulation of choice of law rules.

Includes bibliography and index.

0199256136

xxxvi, 358 p.