Recommended readings (Machine generated): Bruce L. Benson (1989), "Spontaneous Evolution of Commercial Law, " 55 Southern Economic Journal 644-661 -- Lisa Bernstein (1992), "Opting Out of the Legal System: Extralegal Contractual Relations in the Diamond Industry, " 21 Journal of Legal Studies 115-157 -- Lisa Bernstein (1996), "Merchant Law in a Merchant Court: Rethinking the Code's Search for Immanent Business Norms, " 144 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1765-1821 -- Robert Cooter (1994), "Structural Adjudication and the New Law Merchant: A Model of Decentralized Law, " 14 International Review of Law & Economics 215-227 -- Bradley, Curtis A. and Gulati, G. Mitu (2010), "Withdrawing from International Custom" 120 Yale Law Journal 202-275 -- Robert Ellickson (1989), "A Hypothesis of Wealth-Maximizing Norms: Evidence from the Whaling Industry, " 5 Journal of Law Economics & Organization 83-97 -- Eric A. Feldman (2006), "The Tuna Court: Law and Norms in the World's Premier Fish Market" 94 California Law Review 313-369 -- Vincy Fon and Francesco Parisi (2009), "Stability and Change in International Customary Law, " 17 Supreme Court Economic Review 279-300 -- Jack L. Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner (2000), "Understanding the Resemblance Between Modern and Traditional Customary International Law, " 40 Virginia Journal of International Law 639-672 -- Jack L. Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner (1999), "A Theory of Customary International Law, " 66 University of Chicago Law Review 1113-1177 -- Avner Greif, Paul Milgrom and Barry R. Weingast (1994), 'Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild', 102 Journal of Political Economy, 745-776 -- Emily Kadens (2012), "The Myth of the Customary Law Merchant, " 90 Texas Law Review 1156-1206 -- Daniel Klerman (2009), "The Emergence of English Commercial Law: Analysis Inspired by the Ottoman Experience, " 71 Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 638-646 -- Eugene Kontorovich (2006), "Inefficient Customs in International Law, " 48 William and Mary Law Review 859-922 -- Janet T. Landa (1981), "A Theory of the Ethnically Homogeneous Middleman Group: An Institutional Alternative to Contract Law" 10 Journal of Legal Studies 349-362 -- Paul R. Milgrom, Douglass C. North, and Barry R. Weingast (1990), "The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne Fairs, " 2 Economics and Politics 1-23 -- Francesco Parisi and Vincy Fon (2010), Customary Law and Articulation Theories, in F. Parisi and V. Fon, Economics of Lawmaking (Oxford U. Press) 157-182 -- Eric A. Posner and Alan O. Sykes (2013), "Customary International Law, " in Eric A. Posner and Alan O. Sykes, Economic Foundations of International Law (Harvard U. Press) 50-62 -- Leon Trakman (1983), "The Medieval Law Merchant" in The Law Merchant: Evolution of Commercial Law 7-21. Bruce L. Benson (1989), 'The Spontaneous Evolution of Commercial Law', Southern Economic Journal, 55 (3), January, 644-61 -- Emily Kadens (2012), 'The Myth of the Customary Law Merchant', Texas Law Review, 90, 1153-206 -- Leon E. Trakman (1983), 'The Medieval Law Merchant', in The Law Merchant: The Evolution of Commercial Law, Chapter 1, Littleton, CO: Fred B. Rothman and Co., 7-21, 137-46 -- Daniel Klerman (2009), 'The Emergence of English Commercial Law: Analysis Inspired by the Ottoman Experience', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 71 (3), September, 638-46 -- Avner Greif, Paul Milgrom and Barry R. Weingast (1994), 'Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild', Journal of Political Economy, 102 (4), August, 745-76 -- Paul R. Milgrom, Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast (1990), 'The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne Fairs', Economics and Politics, 2 (1), March, 1-23 -- Janet T. Landa (1981), 'A Theory of the Ethnically Homogeneous Middleman Group: An Institutional Alternative to Contrac Law', Journal of Legal Studies, X (2), June, 349-62 -- Lisa Bernstein (1992), 'Opting Out of the Legal System: Extralegal Contractual Relations in the Diamond Industry', Journal of Legal Studies, XXI (1), January, 115-57 -- Lisa Bernstein (1996), 'Merchant Law in a Merchant Court: Rethinking the Code's Search for Immanent Business Norms', University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 144 (5), May, 1765-821 -- Eric A. Feldman (2006), 'The Tuna Court: Law and Norms in the World's Premier Fish Market', California Law Review, 94 (2), March, 313-69, includes photos -- Lisa Bernstein (1999), 'The Questionable Empirical Basis of Article 2's Incorporation Strategy: A Preliminary Study', University of Chicago Law Review, 66 (3), Summer, 710-80 -- Robert D. Cooter (1994), 'Structural Adjudication and the New Law Merchant: A Model of Decentralized Law', International Review of Law and Economics, 14 (2), June, 215-31 -- Robert C. Ellickson (1989), 'A Hypothesis of Wealth-Maximizing Norms: Evidence from the Whaling Industry', Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, V (1), Spring, 83-97 -- Eric A. Posner and Alan O. Sykes (2013), 'Customary International Law', in Economic Foundations of International Law, Chapter 5, Cambridge, MA and London, UK: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 50-62, notes -- Jack L. Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner (1999), 'A Theory of Customary International Law', University of Chicago Law Review, 66 (4), Autumn, 1113-77 -- Jack L. Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner (2000), 'Understanding the Resemblance Between Modern and Traditional Customary International Law', Virginia Journal of International Law, 40 (2), Winter, 639-72 -- Eugene Kontorovich (2006), 'Inefficient Customs in International Law', William and Mary Law Review, 48 (3), 859-922 -- Vincy Fon and Francesco Parisi (2009), 'Stability and Change in International Customary Law', Supreme Court Economic Review, 17 (1), February, 279-309 -- Curtis A. Bradley and Mitu Gulati (2010), 'Withdrawing from International Custom', Yale Law Journal, 120, 202-75.