Idea of Commercial Law

Know about the book -

Idea of Commercial Law is written by John Linarelli and published by Hart Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1849462860 (ISBN 10) and 9781849462860 (ISBN 13).

This book is about the history of legal thought about commercial law from the period just preceding the Industrial Revolution to the present. It combines intellectual history, historiography, jurisprudence, political economy, and the economics of law to show how legal approaches to commercial law have transformed in the past two hundred years or so. The role of the judge, the legislator, and the merchant or professional in producing rules for commercial law are examined. The book illuminates how, contrary to traditional thinking about commercial law as mainly a practitioner's craft, it has been at the forefront of paradigmatic movements in legal theory and in the way we have come to understand the nature of law. The book also examines more recent and possible future trends in thinking about commercial law, including the disparate influences of the law and economics movement on commercial law and how new methods in the social and behavioural sciences could improve our understanding of how to regulate commerce and finance. The main focus of the book is on commercial law in the Anglo-American tradition though some effort is devoted to European commercial law and to the idea of a transnational commercial law. It will be of interest to academics, practitioners, and students with interests in commercial law, legal theory, legal history, and interdisciplinary studies of the law.