Author: Berger
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Keywords: mercatoria, revised, lex, new, codification, creeping
Number of Pages: 460
Published: 2010-01-29
List price: $196.00
ISBN-10: 9041131795
ISBN-13: 9789041131799

This greatly revised edition of an influential 1999 book consolidates its authoritative advocacy of the New Lex Mercatoria (NLM). Since the publication of the first edition, self-regulation and private governance in international business have gained world-wide recognition. Three dynamic commercial law initiatives in particular demonstrate that, in spite of the long-lasting dispute about the nature and dogmatic underpinnings of NLM, legal theory and international practice have accepted that transnational business law is open to the ’codification’ of its contents. The UNIDROIT Princ