"Dalhiusen's style is relaxed and he does not over-indulge in footnotes. His writing seems to flow from his own experience, yet there is no doubt that he has done extensive reading, What he writes convinces without the need for an excessive amount of references to sources and other authors. The book is also useful to academic researchers by reason of its comparative approach, and it forms a starting point for more in-depth comparative studies. In conclusion, I regard Dalhuisen't book as a highly valuable contribution to the legal literature. It adopts a useful, modern approach to teaching the young generation of lawyers how to deal with the increasing internationalisation of law. It is also helpful to the practising lawyer and to legislators." -- Uniform Law Review/Revue de Droit Uniforme "This new treatise uniquely fills a void among existing treatises in this area. The essence of Dalhusen's contribution is that it synthesizes and integrates diverse bodies of law into a coherent and accessible account and, no less important, addresses the question of methodology head on.

The book is remarkable in its scope and depth. It stands alone in its field not only due to its comprehensive coverage, but also its original methodology. Although it appears to be a weighty tome, in fact, in light of its scope, it is very concise. While providing a wealth of intensely practical information, its heart is highly conceptual and very ambitious. It is likely to become a classic text in its field." -- American Journal of Comparative Law "Professor Jan Dalhuisen . presents a very different case: that of a civilized and cultivated cosmopolitan legal scholar, with a keen sense of international commercial and financial practice, with an in-depth grounding in both comparative legal history and comparative law, combined with the ability to transcend conventional English black-letter law description with critical judgment towards institutional wisdom and intellectual fashions. Congratulations to the author for a wide-ranging, historically and comparatively very deep and comprehensive commentary, but which is also very contemporary and forward-looking on many or most of the issues relevant it modern transnational commercial, contract and financial transactions.

It is a book for an intellectually curious graduate student or the experienced practitioner with an interest in more than just the operation of a particular legal mechanism." -- International and Comparative Law Quarterly ". a big book, with big themes and an author with the necessary experience to back them up. Full of insights as to the theories that underline the rules governing contract, property and security, it is an important contribution to the law of international commerce and finance." -- Law Quarterly Review.