Customary Law and Economics

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Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction Lisa Bernstein and Francesco Parisi PART I CUSTOMARY LAW: HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Bruce L. Benson (1989), `The Spontaneous Evolution of Commercial Law' 2. Emily Kadens (2012), `The Myth of the Customary Law Merchant' 3. Leon E. Trakman (1983), `The Medieval Law Merchant' 4. Daniel Klerman (2009), `The Emergence of English Commercial Law: Analysis Inspired by the Ottoman Experience' 5. Avner Greif, Paul Milgrom and Barry R. Weingast (1994), `Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild' 6. Paul R. Milgrom, Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast (1990), `The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne Fairs' PART II COMMERCIAL CUSTOMARY LAW: CONTEMPORARY ILLUSTRATIONS 7. Janet T. Landa (1981), `A Theory of the Ethnically Homogeneous Middleman Group: An Institutional Alternative to Contract Law' 8. Lisa Bernstein (1992), `Opting out of the Legal System: Extralegal Contractual Relations in the Diamond Industry' 9. Lisa Bernstein (1996), `Merchant Law in a Merchant Court: Rethinking the Code's Search for Immanent Business Norms' 10. Eric A. Feldman (2006), `The Tuna Court: Law and Norms in the World's Premier Fish Market' 11. Robert D. Cooter (1994), `Structural Adjudication and the New Law Merchant: A Model of Decentralized Law' 12. Lisa Bernstein (2001), `The Questionable Empirical Basis of Article 2's Incorporation Strategy: A Preliminary Study' 13. Robert C. Ellickson (1989), `A Hypothesis of Wealth-Maximizing Norms: Evidence from the Whaling Industry' PART III INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMARY LAW 14. Eric A. Posner and Alan O. Sykes (2013), `Customary International Law' 15. Jack L. Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner (1999), `A Theory of Customary International Law' 16. Jack L. Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner (2000), `Understanding the Resemblance Between Modern and Traditional Customary International Law' 17. Eugene Kontorovich (2006), `Inefficient Customs in International Law' 18. Vincy Fon and Francesco Parisi (2009), `Stability and Change In International Customary Law' 19. Curtis A. Bradley and Mitu Gulati (2009), `Withdrawing from International Custom' 20. Francesco Parisi and Vincy Fon (2009), `Customary Law and Articulation Theories'