International Finance:
Transactions, Policy, and Regulation
Twelfth Edition
by Hal S. Scott
Hardcover, 889 pages
Foundation Press; 12th edition (July 2005)
ISBN: 1587788543
About the Book
This casebook is an authoritative introduction to international finance, transactions, policy, and regulations. Case studies, case notes, and examples illustrate points under consideration. Thought-provoking questions generate classroom discussion and hone students' legal reasoning. Representative topics in International Finance: Transactions, Policy, and Regulation include international aspects of U.S. Securities regulation, the European Union, asset freezes, emerging markets, and offshore mutual funds.
This book has specifically been written from the viewpoint of practitioners in law and finance, providing an in-depth guide to the law and regulation of offshore markets and the international aspects of major financial markets in the U.S., the E.U., and Japan.
About the Author
Hal S. Scott is the Nomura Professor and Director of the Program on International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School. He teaches courses on Banking Regulation, Securities Regulation, International Finance, and the Payment System. He also directs the Concentration in International Finance for foreign graduate students at the Law School.
The Program on International Financial Systems engages in a variety of research. It has recently completed a major study of worldwide capital adequacy rules for banks, insurance companies, and securities firms. The Program also organizes the annual invitation-only Japan-U.S., Europe-U.S., and China-U.S. Symposia on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century, attended by financial system leaders. The Program also gives technical assistance to emerging market and developing countries.
Professor Scott received a B.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1965, an M.A. in Political Science from Stanford University in 1968, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1972. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1975 after serving for a year as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White. Professor Scott served as Reporter to the 3-4-8 Committee of the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code from 1978 to 1983 to revise the law for payment systems.
Besides International Finance: Transactions, Policy, and Regulation, his recent books are International Finance: Law and Regulation (Sweet & Maxwell, 2004), and Capital Adequacy Beyond Basel: Banking Securities, and Insurance (editor) (Oxford University Press, 2005).
He also has recently published "Sizing Operational Risk and the Effect of Insurance: Implications for the Capital Accord II" (with Andrew P. Kuritzkes) in Capital Adequacy Beyond Basel: Banking, Securities, and Insurance, and "A Bankruptcy Procedure for Sovereign Debtors?" — 37 The International Lawyer 103 (2003).
Prof. Scott has served as a consultant to financial institutions, foreign governments, and the World Bank and OECD. He is past President of the International Academy of Consumer and Commercial Law and a former member of the Board of Governors of the American Stock Exchange. He is currently a member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee.