In the past, Jews formed a cohesive, geographically concentrated social group in the countries in which they lived. Jewish law provided detailed substantive rules of commercial behavior, and the Jewish community provided an array of extralegal dispute resolution institutions.

XREF: Connects to law-and-economics literature on private ordering and extralegal dispute resolution (Ostrom, Ellickson).

Lisa Bernestein, Opting out of the Legal Sys…, loc. 182