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

2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gralf-Peter Calliess
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Promising Candidate ◽  
System Part ◽  
Law Merchant ◽  
Lex Mercatoria

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).

Reflexive Transnational Law

2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Graff-Peter Calliess
Keyword(s):  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Domain Name ◽  
Commercial Arbitration ◽  
Transnational Law ◽  
Resolution System ◽  
Law Merchant ◽  
Lex Mercatoria ◽  
Self Reference

SummaryThe author examines the emergence of a transnational private law in alternative dispute resolution bodies and private norm formulating agencies from a reflexive law perspective. After introducing the concept of reflexive law he applies the idea of law as a communicative system to the ongoing debate on the existence of a New Law Merchant or lex mercatoria. He then discusses some features of international commercial arbitration (e.g. the lack of transparency) which hinder self-reference (autopoiesis) and thus the production of legal certainty in lex mercatoria as an autonomous legal system. He then contrasts these findings with the Domain Name Dispute Resolution System, which as opposed to Lex Mercatoria was rationally planned and highly formally organised by WIPO and ICANN, and which is allowing for self-reference and thus is designed as an autopoietic legal system, albeit with a very limited scope, i.e. the interference of abusive domain name registrations with trademarks (cybersquatting). From the comparison of both examples the author derives some preliminary ideas regarding a theory of reflexive transnational law, suggesting that the established general trend of privatisation of civil law need to be accompanied by a civilisation of private law, i.e. the constitutionalization of transnational private regimes by embedding them into a procedural constitution of freedom.

The New Lex Mercatoria in the Sudanese Legal System

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Ali Abdelrahman Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
The Status ◽  
Lex Mercatoria

This article examines the status of the new lex mercatoria within the Sudanese legal system. Its thesis is that the Sudanese legal system is capable of accommodating this rising new lex mercatoria as an autonomous legal order and that Sudanese courts have shown a considerable willingness to apply its rules. This thesis is examined and data proved through identifying the legal and jurisprudential basis for the enforcement of the new lex by Sudanese courts. Thereafter, this is further fostered by examining the Sudanese judicial application of this law.

'Lex Mercatoria' as an Independent Legal System

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Karimi ◽  
Javad Kashani ◽  
Dawood Nassiran
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Lex Mercatoria

scholarly journals La regulación de las relaciones mercantiles internacionales y el desarrollo del derecho del comercio internacional

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Javier San Juan Crucelaegui
Keyword(s):  
Law Merchant ◽  
Lex Mercatoria

Sumario: I. La insuficiencia del sistema conflictual para la regulación de las relaciones mercantiles internacionales. II. Del renacimiento de la lex mercatoria a la configuración del Derecho del comercio internacional (new law merchant). 1. El renacimiento de la lex mercatoria. 2. La configuración del Derecho del comercio internacional. III. La heterogeneidad formal de las normas integradoras del Derecho del comercio internacional y la diversidad de sus orígenes. 1. La aportación de los operadores del comercio internacional (lex mercatoria). A) La costumbre y los usos de comercio. B) Las recopilaciones y codificaciones de usos y prácticas. C) Los usos y prácticas observados por las partes en sus relaciones. D) Los contratos tipo. 2. El arbitraje internacional y el desarrollo del Derecho del comercio internacional. A) La progresiva decantación de principios generales reguladores de la contratación mercantil internacional. B) El arbitraje internacional y la autonomía del Derecho del comercio internacional. 3. La contribución de los Estados y organizaciones internacionales. A) Los Tratados y Convenciones. B) Las leyes modelo. C) Los principios generales para la regulación de la contratación comercial internacional. D) Las guías jurídicas. IV. El contenido del Derecho del comercio internacional. 1. Los caracteres del Derecho del comercio internacional y las normas que lo integran. A) La uniformidad reguladora pretendida: la exclusión del sistema conflictual. B) El carácter privado de las normas que integran el Derecho del comercio internacional: la exclusión de las normas de Derecho público reguladoras del tráfico económico. 2. La sistematización del Derecho del comercio internacional. V. Derecho internacional privado y Derecho del comercio internacional.

scholarly journals Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Navigating the System Part 2 - Legal Issues

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2002 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Millie Ferrer ◽  
Angela Falcone
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Cooperative Extension ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Agricultural Sciences ◽  
System Part

 This document is FCS 2189-Eng, one of a series of the Department of Family, Youth, and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Publication date: January 2002. Its goal is to provide grandparents with information about Florida’s legal system as it relates to grandparents raising grandchildren.

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