This paper is the introduction essay to an edited collection entitled “Law, Economics, and Evolutionary Theory”, forthcoming with Edward Elgar. The volume brings together work by legal scholars, economists, historians and sociologists and aims at a critical investigation of the parallel and...

During the last decade fitness has become the most popular sport in Germany and many other countries. Whereas sport was traditionally organised within the public sector, people today willingly exchange their sovereignty as a voter, tax payer, or club member for sovereignty as a consumer of...

Lex mercatoria or Law Merchant (‘LM') is said to be the self-made law of international commerce. According to its proponents, LM is an autonomous legal order that not only supplements state commercial law, but works as a substitute for it. The ‘ancient' LM, which accompanied the commercial...