Sumário:Table of cases: Australia. Canada. Singapore. South Africa. United Kingdom. United States of America -- Table of legislation: United Kingdom Statutes. United Kingdom statutory instruments. Australia. Australia. China. France. Germany. India. Israel. Italy. Japan. South Africa. Sri Lanka. Switzerland. United States of America. European regulations. International instruments -- Negotiability, negotiable instruments, and the law of bills, notes, and cheques -- General law and negotiable instruments : a brief historical perspective -- Choice-of-law question, three major developments, and the need for harmonization -- Negotiable instruments choice-of-law rules in the various systems -- The foreign element and party autonomy in negotiable instruments law -- Choice-of-law rules in the absence of party autonomy : the most significant relationship principle -- The boundaries of the proposed argument -- International negotiable instruments in the electronic age.