Matti S. Kurkela, Attorney at Law, Senior Partner, Hannes Snellman (Helsinki); Docent, University of Helsinki Law School. He is a prolific author and has written several reference works and journal articles covering international commercial contracts, banking and finance, antitrust, construction, insurance, securities, and arbitration.

Matti Kurkela has given practitioners, courts, and scholars a fine comparative study. Its heavy annotation of world-wide letter of credit and guarantee law sources with special emphasis on European and U.S. commercial law make it a genuinely unique offering. In this second edition, Kurkela once again emphasizes the law merchant dimensions of these commercial facilities that he calls 'independent offerings'. The scope is broad, the treatment deep. For those serious about letters of credit and bank guarantees, this treatise is a rich resource.

• Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: Interplay of Lex Mercatoria, Private International Law, and National Law ; Chapter 3: The Instrubments and "Contractual" Patterms ; Chapter 4: Choice of Law ; Chapter 5: Lex Mercatoria and Landmark Case Law ; Chapter 6: Issues Beyond the Scope of Lex Mercatoria ; Chapter 7: Rights to Reimbursement Doctrine ; Chapter 8: Jurisdictional Issues ; Chapter 9: Choice of Law in Light of Case Law

Matti S. Kurkela, Attorney at Law, Senior Partner, Hannes Snellman (Helsinki); Docent, University of Helsinki Law School. He is a prolific author and has written several reference works and journal articles covering international commercial contracts, banking and finance, antitrust, construction, insurance, securities, and arbitration.

Matti Kurkela has given practitioners, courts, and scholars a fine comparative study. Its heavy annotation of world-wide letter of credit and guarantee law sources with special emphasis on European and U.S. commercial law make it a genuinely unique offering. In this second edition, Kurkela once again emphasizes the law merchant dimensions of these commercial facilities that he calls 'independent offerings'. The scope is broad, the treatment deep. For those serious about letters of credit and bank guarantees, this treatise is a rich resource.

• Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: Interplay of Lex Mercatoria, Private International Law, and National Law ; Chapter 3: The Instrubments and "Contractual" Patterms ; Chapter 4: Choice of Law ; Chapter 5: Lex Mercatoria and Landmark Case Law ; Chapter 6: Issues Beyond the Scope of Lex Mercatoria ; Chapter 7: Rights to Reimbursement Doctrine ; Chapter 8: Jurisdictional Issues ; Chapter 9: Choice of Law in Light of Case Law

Matti S. Kurkela, Attorney at Law, Senior Partner, Hannes Snellman (Helsinki); Docent, University of Helsinki Law School. He is a prolific author and has written several reference works and journal articles covering international commercial contracts, banking and finance, antitrust, construction, insurance, securities, and arbitration.

Matti Kurkela has given practitioners, courts, and scholars a fine comparative study. Its heavy annotation of world-wide letter of credit and guarantee law sources with special emphasis on European and U.S. commercial law make it a genuinely unique offering. In this second edition, Kurkela once again emphasizes the law merchant dimensions of these commercial facilities that he calls 'independent offerings'. The scope is broad, the treatment deep. For those serious about letters of credit and bank guarantees, this treatise is a rich resource.

• Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: Interplay of Lex Mercatoria, Private International Law, and National Law ; Chapter 3: The Instrubments and "Contractual" Patterms ; Chapter 4: Choice of Law ; Chapter 5: Lex Mercatoria and Landmark Case Law ; Chapter 6: Issues Beyond the Scope of Lex Mercatoria ; Chapter 7: Rights to Reimbursement Doctrine ; Chapter 8: Jurisdictional Issues ; Chapter 9: Choice of Law in Light of Case Law