Contract Principles

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Sale of Goods

Dispute Settlement

International & Transnational Law sites

"Lex Mercatoria?" Contract Principles / Commercial Codes

Transnational Law Principles - Creeping Codification

Transnational Law Database at CENTRAL's Transnational Law database on rules and principles of Lex Mercatoria based on Prof. Klaus Peter Berger's concept of the Creeping Codification of Lex Mercatoria is inaugurated on October 26^th 2001 at the Conference Globalization of International Business Law held at CENTRAL, Muenster University, Germany. Guest speakers include Lord Mustill.

Unidroit

Principles of International Commercial Contracts, 2004; - UNIDROIT, Rome 2004. Black letter rules only
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Complete Commented version of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, 2004 "The complete version of the UNIDROIT Principles contains not only the black?letter rules reproduced hereunder, but also detailed comments on each article and, where appropriate, illustrations. The volume may be ordered from UNIDROIT at <http://www.unidroit.org>

For an update of international case law and bibliography relating to the Principles see <http://www.unilex.info> ."

UNIDROIT Principles Collection

Principles of International Commercial Contracts, 1994; - UNIDROIT, Rome 1994. Commented Version
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Representing "a significant step in the globalization of legal thinking". J.M. Perillo

"The success of even binding uniform law instruments ... depends at least to a great extent, on their being brought to the attention of the potential users. This is all the more true of non-binding instruments such as the UNIDROIT Principles" M.J. Bonell

This is a copy of the official commented version of the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts prepared using the UNIDROIT presentation. The hardcopy integral edition of the English, French, German, Italian and Spanish versions ISBN 88-86449-00-3 may be ordered directly from Unidroit Publications, Via Panisperna 28, 00184 Italy (fax +39-6 69 94 13 94).

Source Document - UNIDROIT

UNIDROIT Principles for International Commercial Contracts: A New Lex Mercatoria?

Principles of International Commercial Contracts
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UNIDROIT, Rome, 1994. Text without commentary.

alternative source - Unidroit

alternative source - Law Journal Extra

Other Language editions

Dutch (Prof. Matthias Storme)

Contributors

UNILEX on CISG and UNIDROIT Principles and the product <http://www.cnr.it/CRDCS/unilex.htm> International Case Law and Bibliography

EU

Principles of European Contract Law 2002; by the Commission on European Contract Law.
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Other Language Versions and Members of the Commission

[REMOVED] Primary source and other language versions Matthias E. Storme

Contributors 1994 Lando Commission

EU Member States

"The Principles of European Contract are the product of work carried out by the Commission on European Contract Law a body of lawyers drawn from all the Member States of the European Community, under the chairmanship of Professor Ole Lando. They are a response to a need for a Community-wide infrastructure of contract law to consolidate the rapidly expanding volume of Community law regulating specific types of contract"

Commented version of the Principles of European Contract Law edited by Ole Lando & Hugh Beale ISBN 9041113053

For more information, write to the Secretary of the Commission, Matthias E. STORME, <matthias@storme.be>

"Leaving the Shadow for the Test of Practice - On the Future of the Principles of European Contract Law"; by Friedrich Blase, published in The Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration, Volume 3 Issue 1, 1999 ISSN 1439-9741
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US

US Uniform Commercial Code from the LII

US Contracts from the LII