1. On the medieval Law Merchant see Gerard Malynes,Consuetudo, Vel, Lex Mercatoria, or, The Ancient Law-Merchant: In Three Parts According to the Essentials of Traffck(Lawbook Exchange, 3rd edn 2009 [1686]); W Mitchell,An Essay on the Early History of the Law Merchant(Cambridge University Press, 2011 [1904]); Leon E Trakman,The Law Merchant: The Evolution of Commercial Law(William S Hein, 1983) 7–22;
2. It is arguable that political and economic interests in promoting trans-regional trade were also signifcant drivers behind the conception of a universal Law Merchant. See eg Amalia D Kessler,A Revolution in Commerce: The Parisian Merchant Court and the Rise of Commercial Society in Eighteenth-Century France(Yale University Press, 2007) 73, 86 (providing a critique of the procedural virtues associated with the 18th century Law Merchant based on the limited and nonarchival writings of a merchant, Toubeau).