Edited by Peer Zumbansen, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Canada and Gralf-Peter Calliess, Chair of Private Law, Comparative and International Economic Law and Legal Theory, University of Bremen, Germany

• Contents:ForewordLaw, Economics and Evolutionary Theory: State of the Art and Interdisciplinary PerspectivesPeer Zumbansen and Gralf-Peter Calliess PART I: EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND HISTORICAL TRAJECTORIES1. The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Economic Growth Joel Mokyr2. The Unbearable Lightness of A – Useful Knowledge and Economic Growth Thráinn Eggertsson 3. The Law Merchant’s Story: How Romantic is it?Bruce L. Benson 4. Path Dependence: A Foundational Concept for Historical Social SciencePaul A. David PART II: EVOLUTIONARY THEORY IN LAW AND ECONOMICS5. System and Evolution in Corporate Governance Simon Deakin and Fabio Carvalho6. Constitutional Possibility and Constitutional EvolutionEric A. Posner 7. The Expressive Power of Adjudication in an Evolutionary ContextRichard H. McAdams 8. Forces Shaping the Evolution of Private Legal SystemsAmitai Aviram 9. Legal Evolution between Stability and ChangeMartina Eckardt 10. The Genesis of Law: On the Paradox of Law’s Origin and its SupplémentMarc Amstutz 11. Gene-Culture Co-Evolutionary Theory and the Evolution of Legal Behavior and InstitutionsBart Du Laing 12. Making Evolutionary Theory Useful for Legal ActorsMauro Zamboni PART III: TRANSNATIONAL LAW AND EVOLUTIONARY GOVERNANCE13. Transnational Commercial Law, Multi-level Legal Systems, and Evolutionary Economics Wolfgang Kerber 14. Darwin at Work: How to Explain Legal Change in Transnational and European Private Law Jan M. Smits 15. Linking Extra-legal Codes to Law: The Role of International Standards and Other Off-the-track RegimesErich Schanze 16. Transnational Governance and Evolutionary Theory Gralf-Peter Calliess, Jörg Freiling and Moritz RennerIndex

’Zumbansen and Calliess have done a wonderful job in assembling papers from the leading scholars in the field, who draw on evolutionary approaches for explaining developments in both economics and the law. Anybody interested in issues of institutional change will be inspired by the wealth of ideas and the diversity of perspectives.’

Edited by Peer Zumbansen, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Canada and Gralf-Peter Calliess, Chair of Private Law, Comparative and International Economic Law and Legal Theory, University of Bremen, Germany

• Contents:ForewordLaw, Economics and Evolutionary Theory: State of the Art and Interdisciplinary PerspectivesPeer Zumbansen and Gralf-Peter Calliess PART I: EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND HISTORICAL TRAJECTORIES1. The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Economic Growth Joel Mokyr2. The Unbearable Lightness of A – Useful Knowledge and Economic Growth Thráinn Eggertsson 3. The Law Merchant’s Story: How Romantic is it?Bruce L. Benson 4. Path Dependence: A Foundational Concept for Historical Social SciencePaul A. David PART II: EVOLUTIONARY THEORY IN LAW AND ECONOMICS5. System and Evolution in Corporate Governance Simon Deakin and Fabio Carvalho6. Constitutional Possibility and Constitutional EvolutionEric A. Posner 7. The Expressive Power of Adjudication in an Evolutionary ContextRichard H. McAdams 8. Forces Shaping the Evolution of Private Legal SystemsAmitai Aviram 9. Legal Evolution between Stability and ChangeMartina Eckardt 10. The Genesis of Law: On the Paradox of Law’s Origin and its SupplémentMarc Amstutz 11. Gene-Culture Co-Evolutionary Theory and the Evolution of Legal Behavior and InstitutionsBart Du Laing 12. Making Evolutionary Theory Useful for Legal ActorsMauro Zamboni PART III: TRANSNATIONAL LAW AND EVOLUTIONARY GOVERNANCE13. Transnational Commercial Law, Multi-level Legal Systems, and Evolutionary Economics Wolfgang Kerber 14. Darwin at Work: How to Explain Legal Change in Transnational and European Private Law Jan M. Smits 15. Linking Extra-legal Codes to Law: The Role of International Standards and Other Off-the-track RegimesErich Schanze 16. Transnational Governance and Evolutionary Theory Gralf-Peter Calliess, Jörg Freiling and Moritz RennerIndex

’Zumbansen and Calliess have done a wonderful job in assembling papers from the leading scholars in the field, who draw on evolutionary approaches for explaining developments in both economics and the law. Anybody interested in issues of institutional change will be inspired by the wealth of ideas and the diversity of perspectives.’

Edited by Peer Zumbansen, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Canada and Gralf-Peter Calliess, Chair of Private Law, Comparative and International Economic Law and Legal Theory, University of Bremen, Germany

• Contents:ForewordLaw, Economics and Evolutionary Theory: State of the Art and Interdisciplinary PerspectivesPeer Zumbansen and Gralf-Peter Calliess PART I: EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND HISTORICAL TRAJECTORIES1. The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Economic Growth Joel Mokyr2. The Unbearable Lightness of A – Useful Knowledge and Economic Growth Thráinn Eggertsson 3. The Law Merchant’s Story: How Romantic is it?Bruce L. Benson 4. Path Dependence: A Foundational Concept for Historical Social SciencePaul A. David PART II: EVOLUTIONARY THEORY IN LAW AND ECONOMICS5. System and Evolution in Corporate Governance Simon Deakin and Fabio Carvalho6. Constitutional Possibility and Constitutional EvolutionEric A. Posner 7. The Expressive Power of Adjudication in an Evolutionary ContextRichard H. McAdams 8. Forces Shaping the Evolution of Private Legal SystemsAmitai Aviram 9. Legal Evolution between Stability and ChangeMartina Eckardt 10. The Genesis of Law: On the Paradox of Law’s Origin and its SupplémentMarc Amstutz 11. Gene-Culture Co-Evolutionary Theory and the Evolution of Legal Behavior and InstitutionsBart Du Laing 12. Making Evolutionary Theory Useful for Legal ActorsMauro Zamboni PART III: TRANSNATIONAL LAW AND EVOLUTIONARY GOVERNANCE13. Transnational Commercial Law, Multi-level Legal Systems, and Evolutionary Economics Wolfgang Kerber 14. Darwin at Work: How to Explain Legal Change in Transnational and European Private Law Jan M. Smits 15. Linking Extra-legal Codes to Law: The Role of International Standards and Other Off-the-track RegimesErich Schanze 16. Transnational Governance and Evolutionary Theory Gralf-Peter Calliess, Jörg Freiling and Moritz RennerIndex

’Zumbansen and Calliess have done a wonderful job in assembling papers from the leading scholars in the field, who draw on evolutionary approaches for explaining developments in both economics and the law. Anybody interested in issues of institutional change will be inspired by the wealth of ideas and the diversity of perspectives.’