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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Harry Flechtner--A True Teacher/Scholar, With Rhythm, Ronald A. Brand
Harry Flechtner--A True Teacher/Scholar, With Rhythm, Ronald A. Brand
Articles
This is a tribute to Professor Emeritus Harry Flechtner upon his retirement from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Professor Flechtner was a leading scholar on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), a stellar teacher, a musician who used that skill in the classroom as well as the Vienna Konzerthaus, and a genuinely nice person.
From St. Ives To Cyberspace: The Modern Distortion Of The Medieval ‘Law Merchant’, Stephen E. Sachs
From St. Ives To Cyberspace: The Modern Distortion Of The Medieval ‘Law Merchant’, Stephen E. Sachs
Faculty Scholarship
Modern advocates of corporate self-regulation have drawn unlikely inspiration from the Middle Ages. On the traditional view of history, medieval merchants who wandered from fair to fair were not governed by domestic laws, but by their own lex mercatoria, or "law merchant. " This law, which uniformly regulated commerce across Europe, was supposedly produced by an autonomous merchant class, interpreted in private courts, and enforced through private sanctions rather than state coercion. Contemporary writers have treated global corporations as descendants of these itinerant traders, urging them to replace conflicting national laws with a transnational law of their own creation. The …
Commercial Paper In Economic Theory And Legal History, Harold R. Weinberg
Commercial Paper In Economic Theory And Legal History, Harold R. Weinberg
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Commercial-paper played a significant role in antebellum America by partially filling the void resulting from the shortage of gold and silver coinage and the absence of a reliable paper currency. Although most legal historians would agree with this premise, a controversy has arisen in recent years concerning negotiability, that collection of legal rules which greatly enhanced the usefulness of bills of exchange and promissory notes in commerce and finance.
Many scholars believe that negotiability, along with other pre-Civil War legal doctrines, was intended to facilitate the development of a national market system and economic growth. This view typically holds that …
Commercial Transactions (1980 Annual Survey Of Michigan Law), John F. Dolan
Commercial Transactions (1980 Annual Survey Of Michigan Law), John F. Dolan
Law Faculty Research Publications
As they do each year, Michigan courts decided a number of commercial law cases during the survey period. Several of the cases are significant opinions which either raise questions or carry significant implications for Michigan's commercial lawyers. This survey selects those significant cases, attempts to answer the questions raised, and probes the implications of the decisions.
Commercial Transactions (1975 Annual Survey Of Michigan Law), John F. Dolan
Commercial Transactions (1975 Annual Survey Of Michigan Law), John F. Dolan
Law Faculty Research Publications
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