Table of Contents

Part I: The Concept of Money and Monetary Systems
1: The Concept of Money
2: The Organisation of the Monetary System
Part II: The Private Law of Monetary Obligations
3: The Character of Monetary Obligations
4: Monetary Obligations and the Conflict of Laws
5: The Interpretation of Monetary Obligations - Initial Uncertainty
6: The Interpretation of Monetary Obligations - Subsequent Uncertainty
7: The Performance of Monetary Obligations
8: Legal Proceedings and their Effect upon Monetary Obligations
Part III: The Principle of Nominalism
9: Monetary Obligations, Liquidated Sums, and the Principle of Nominalism
10: Monetary Obligations - Unliquidated Amounts
11: Excluding the Effects of Nominalism
12: Nominalism, Legislation, and Public Policy
13: Nominalism, Private International Law, and the Lex Monetae Principle
Part IV: Exchange Controls, Exchange Rates, and Sanctions
14: Exchange Control - The UK Model
15: Exchange Control under the International Monetary Fund Agreement
16: The Private International Law of Exchange Control
17: Sanctions and Monetary Obligations
18: Exchange Rates
Part V: Public International Law of Money
19: Monetary Sovereignity
20: The Protection of Foreign Currency Systems
21: The Protection of Foreign Monetary Institutions
22: International Rules of Monetary Conduct
23: The Monetary Law of Interstate Obligations
Part VI: Monetary Unions and other Forms of Monetary Organisation
24: The Nature and History of Monetary Unions
25: Historical Background to EMU
26: EMU and the Treaty on European Union
27: The Institutional Framework of Monetary Union
28: The Single Currency and its Treaty Framework
29: The Euro Regulations
30: Monetary Union and Monetary Obligations
31: The Euro and Monetary Sovereignity
32: Withdrawal from the Eurozone
33: Other Forms of Monetary Organisation

About the Author

Charles Proctor is a partner at Edwards Wildman with 25 years' experience gained both in London and in the Far East in the banking, securities and international finance fields with various City Law firms, specialising in the field of banking and financial services. He is also an honorary professor in the School of Law, University of Birmingham and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. He has previously published four books, including the
sixth edition of "Mann on the Legal Aspect of Money", and numerous articles on various aspects of financial law.

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