The Lex Mercatoria in the Global Economy
Article from: OGEL 5 (2003), in International Oil, Gas & Energy Dispute Management
Introduction
Thomas Carbonneau, Lex Mercatoria and Arbitration, A Discussion of the New Law Merchant, Revised Edition, Kluwer Law London 1998, 279 pages plus index; ISBN: 90411-0586-7; Ursula Stein, Lex Mercatoria, Realitaet und Theorie, Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt 1995, 259, plus index, bibliography, list of judicial & arbitral decisions, ISBN 3-465-02820-1 Both books discuss an issue that is of considerable doctrinal and theoretical interest - the issue of lex mercatoria/law merchant as the autonomous law of international business, and in combination with this conceptual ...