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Lex Mercatoria: A Reflexive Law Guide To An Autonomous Legal System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Gralf-Peter Calliess

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In this presentation I shall start with a brief introduction into the concept of Reflexive Law (Part I), in order to examine what makes especially Reflexive Law a promising candidate for a fruitful contribution to the ongoing debate on the normative-legal or mere social-factual status of Lex Mercatoria (Part II), and finally coming up with the suggestion of some criteria or features, which we should draw special attention on in the process of the emergence of a New Law Merchant as an autonomous legal system (Part III).

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Research Article
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German Law Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 17 , 2001 , E4
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Copyright © 2001 by German Law Journal GbR 

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