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The European Union, The Member States, And The Lex Mercatoria, Gabriella Saputelli
The European Union, The Member States, And The Lex Mercatoria, Gabriella Saputelli
Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law
The phenomena linked to the "internationalization" and "globalization" of the economy prompt the demand for uniform legal frameworks in supranational governance and encourage forms of “self-regulation”. This spontaneous attempt at harmonizing law at the supranational level is often prepared by market forces and comes to add to the classical legal models while leading to the emergence of a new lex mercatoria.
The aim of this paper is to analyze the openings of the European system to the transnational production of law identified under the term "new lex mercatoria" by verifying all the factors that allow its sources of law to …