Around 1900, standard contracts and clauses spread throughout international industries such as transport, insurance and finance. The "earthquake clause", which

Around 1900, standard contracts and clauses spread throughout international industries such as transport, insurance and finance. The "earthquake clause", which

This book explores the development of both the civil law conception of the Legal State and the common law conception of the Rule of Law. It examines the philoso

Draws on archival research to tell the story of the nineteenth and twentieth-century development of commercial law through practice.

Reinsurance was a global business from the start the method of spreading and balancing risks in international markets. But this also meant that reinsurance was