"The International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, was again the venue of a very productive workshop..."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Towards a theoretical framework for contractual certainty in global trade / Volkmar Gessner -- Ethnic networks, extra-legal certainty and globalization : peering into the diamond industry / Barak D. Richman -- The role of Lex Mercatoria in supporting globalised transactions : an empirical insight into the governance structure of the timber industry / Wioletta Konradi -- The emergence of transnational cooperation in the software industry / Thomas Dietz and Holger Nieswandt -- Cross-border dispute resolution from the perspective of mid-sized law firms : the example of international commercial Arbitration / Fabian P Sosa -- Structuring transactions : the case of real estate finance / John Flood and Eleni Skordaki -- Theories of change : the governance of business transactions in globalising economies / Volkmar Gessner -- Transnational civil regimes : economic globalisation and the evolution of commercial law / Gralf-Peter Calliess -- The public and the private in the provision of law for global transactions / Gillian K. Hadfield -- Institutional designs in international transactions : an evolutionary economics perspective / Jörg Freiling -- Global trade : changes in the conceptualisation of legal certainty? / Bärbel R Dorbeck-Jung -- Contractual certainty versus efficiency : the historical and institutional context of global trade / Wolf Heydebrand.