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The Law Merchant-Redux, Art Gemmell Dr.
The Law Merchant-Redux, Art Gemmell Dr.
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The Lex Mercatoria- Redux Arthur J. Gemmell and Autumn Talbott* ABSTRACT
The lex mercatoria developed as merchant-made, private law. Unlike other bodies of law, the lex mercatoria was not born of statutory or “natural” law but from practical, day-to-day commercial usage. In fact, medieval commercial activities propagated the “most favorable trading practices and customs of the various foreign markets within which [merchants] did business.”
What evolved in the Middle Ages out of necessity stands today as a sometimes controversial testimony to the power of self-regulation through a specialized and practical body of law: the lex mercatoria that has for centuries …