Lex mercatoria is sometimes used in international disputes between commercial entities. Most often those disputes are decided by arbitrators which sometimes are allowed (explicitly or implied) to apply lex mercatoria principles.[11]
↑Johnson, David R.; Post, David (May 1996). "Law and Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace". Stanford Law Review. 48 (5): 1367. doi:10.2307/1229390. JSTOR1229390.
↑Basile, Mary Elizabeth; Bestor, Jane Fair; Coquillette, Daniel R.; Donahue Jr., Charles, eds. (1998). Lex Mercatoria and Legal Pluralism: A Late Thirteenth Century Treatise and Its Afterlife. Ames Foundation.
↑Kadens, Emily (Winter 2015). "The Medieval Law Merchant: The Tyranny of a Construct". Journal of Legal Analysis. 7 (2): 251–289. doi:10.1093/jla/lav004.
↑Pasch. 13 Edw. 4 pl. 5. https://www.bu.edu/phpbin/lawyearbooks/display.php?id=20338
↑James Brown Scott, Law, the State, and the International Community, p. 259, Columbia University Press, (1939)
↑CM Schmitthoff, 'International Business Law, A New Law Merchant' in Current Law and Social Problems (1961) 137
↑cf. Volkmar Gessner/Ali Cem Budak, eds., Emerging Legal Certainty: Empirical Studies on the Globalization of Law. Ashgate: Dartmouth 1998
↑Some examples of such arbitral awards: Collected by Trans-Lex.org
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External links
The Lex Mercatoria on-lineArchived 19 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
The 'Law Merchant' and the Fair Court of St. Ives, 1270–1324 by Stephen Edward Sachs
Boudreaux on Law and Legislation Podcast on law vs. legislation, including modern applications of lex mercatoria and economic theory. EconTalk at Econlib
Trans-Lex, a research and codification platform for transnational law / lex mercatoria
Gesa Baron: Do the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts form a new lex mercatoria?Archived 13 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine