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Imprint:Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, c2014.
Description:xv, 761 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Economic approaches to law ; 42
An Elgar research collection
Economic approaches to law ; 42.
Elgar research collection.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9919897
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Other authors / contributors:Bernstein, Lisa.
Parisi, Francesco, 1962-
Posner, Eric A.
ISBN:9781782549697 (hbk.)
1782549692 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • The spontaneous evolution of commercial law / Bruce L. Benson
  • The myth of the customary law merchant / Emily Kadens
  • The medieval law merchant / Leon E. Trakman
  • The emergence of English commercial law: analysis inspired by the Ottoman experience / Daniel Klerman
  • Coordination, commitment, and enforcement: the case of the merchant guild / Avner Greif, Paul Milgrom, Barry R. Weingast
  • The role of institutions in the revival of trade: the law merchant, private judges, and the Champagne fairs / Paul R. Milgrom, Douglass C. North, Barry R. Weingast
  • A theory of the ethnically homogeneous middleman group: an institutional alternative to contract law / Janet T. Landa
  • Opting out of the legal system: extralegal contractual relations in the diamond industry / Lisa Bernstein
  • Merchant law in a merchant court: rethinking the Code's search for immanent business norms / Lisa Bernstein
  • The Tuna Court: law and norms in the world's premier fish market / Eric A. Feldman
  • The questionable empirical basis of Article 2's incorporation strategy: a preliminary study / Lisa Bernstein
  • Structural adjudication and the new law merchant: a model of decentralized law / Robert D. Cooter
  • A hypothesis of wealth-maximizing norms: evidence from the whaling industry / Robert C. Ellickson
  • Customary international law / Eric A. Posner, Alan O. Sykes
  • A theory of customary international law / Jack L. Goldsmith, Eric A. Posner
  • Understanding the resemblance between modern and traditional customary international law / Jack L. Goldsmith, Eric A. Posner
  • Inefficient customs in international law / Eugene Kontorovich
  • Stability and change in international customary law / Vincy Fon, Francesco Parisi
  • Withdrawing from international custom / Curtis A. Bradley, Mitu Gulati
  • Customary law and articulation theories / Francesco Parisi, Vincy Fon.