The European Research Council funded project MICOLL (ERC-2020-COG 101002084), led by Professor Stefania Gialdroni, aims at analyzing the development of commercial law by means of a tool almost ignored in this field: historical linguistics.

The borrowing and transfer of legal terms will be carried out through a comprehensive and systematic investigation of medieval and early modern legal sources, in particular commercial letters, contracts, and statutes. Even though legal historians tend to deny the effectiveness of a body of customary laws uniformly adopted across medieval and modern Europe, the “myth” of the ancient lex mercatoria continues to provide historical legitimacy to the supporters of corporate self-regulation.

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