Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (2004)
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The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts are the result of the ambitious quest for codifying the lex mercatoria, i.e. those unwritten rules of the game by which merchants presumably have always understood to do international business. Since the publication of their first version in 1994, the UNIDROIT Principles have had an impressive success. They have become a serious alternative to national contract laws in international disputes decided by arbitral tribunals, such as those administered by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). At the same time, they have been accepted as a model for reforming the laws on international contract (as recently Russia, Lithuania, and China). With the publication of a new version of the Principles in 2004, this first phase of codifying international contract law is now considered to be finished. While there is much writing about the theoretic legal nature and the practical applicability of the Principles, there is hardly any research on their substance, meaning their substantive rules on contracts. This book fills this gap. A comprehensive analysis of each provision of the Principles allows a better understanding of the rules governing international contracts. In short, this book contributes to make the application of the Principles more predictable and thus more efficient.Reviews
The Publishers' work is impeccable. As is customary in english publications, there is a 16-page list of abbreviations, a 40-page table of transnational instruments, a 44-page table of cases, the full text in the five official languages of UNIDROIT (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish), a 110-page comparison with international uniform conventions (basically CISG and the agency convention, aswell as PECL), a 50-page chapter-to-chapter bibliography and a 69-page index. It will be difficult for the PECL group to catch up with this magnificent work."
--Ewoud Hondius, Co-Editor-in-Chief
European Review of Private Law 5
About the Author(s)
Stefan Vogenauer has been Professor of Comparative Law and Fellow at Brasenose College at the University of Oxford since 2003 and Director of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law since 2004. He was born in 1968, read law in Kiel, Paris and Oxford and is qualified to practice in Germany. Before taking up his post at Oxford he worked as a Research Assistant at the Regensburg Law Faculty, as a part-time Lecturer at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and as a Research Fellow at the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private Law and Private International Law. Apart from comparative law his research interests lie in the fields of private law, European legal history and legal method.
Dr. Jan Kleinheisterkamp is a lecturer at the London School of Economics and a visiting lecturer at Paris II. He was born in 1971 in Peru and grew up in South Africa, Colombia, Spain, Germany, the USA and Brazil. He read law in Germany (Freiburg, Hannover) until 1998, and is admitted to the Bar in Hamburg. Prior to joining LSE, he was a research assistant and then research fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law until 2004, when he was appointed Assistant Professor at the HEC School of Management, Paris. His research focuses on comparative law, conflict of laws and international arbitration.
