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Security rights in crypto-assets: an opportunity for uniform law? Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Theodora Kostoula
As the market of crypto-assets grows, so does the demand for their use as collateral in cross-border lending transactions. Such a development, though, may pose significant challenges to the main pillars of security rights due to the distinctive features and the nature of crypto-assets. Accordingly, this article identifies and explores the core legal issues, offers guidance in the crypto-collateral
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Digital assets and private law: is there a need for a uniform law? Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Spyridon V Bazinas
The various legislative initiatives around the world on the private law aspects of digital assets are a clear indication of both the importance and the urgency of preparing rules of law to adjust private law in general and secured transactions law in particular to address emerging technologies. All these initiatives raise the question whether principles would be sufficient or whether a uniform law
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The avatar law and (cyber) transnational contracts Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Souichirou Kozuka
The virtual world, often referred to as “Metaverse”, has recently emerged as the forum for people to communicate and socialise with each other. It will not be long before economic activities take place in the Metaverse, booming the Metaverse economy. To provide legal certainties to such activities, the law on the subjects of such activities, namely avatars, needs to be explored, besides the law on
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Artificial Intelligence in corporate governance: a few inquiries on the (non-)compliance of directors’ duties from a Portuguese law perspective Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Igor Silva de Lima
It is widely accepted that directors’ duties encompass the duty to prepare and analyse information concerning the company’s business and affairs and market conditions and the duty to monitor and oversee the company’s actual and prospective economic and financial outlook. While exercising the so-called business judgment rule, directors shall question themselves as to whether the information reasonably
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Access to justice and multinational corporations: promoting privately driven transnational hybrid adjudication Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Rishi Gulati
This chapter focuses on the delivery of justice to victims of corporate conduct through privately driven transnational hybrid dispute resolution mechanisms. The advent of such mechanisms is now evident through the creation of Meta’s Oversight Board (‘OSB’). How to incorporate such privately driven justice mechanisms in more conventional forms of legal ordering is an important question constituting
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Financial market regulation and private law: a new frontier of transnational commercial law Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Josef Wittmann
Global financial markets are among the most extensively regulated markets in the world economy. This poses significant challenges from a private law perspective when regulatory rules interfere with private rights and obligations. This article examines the potential of transnational commercial law (TCL) to provide for a private law framework suited to the regulatory reality in global financial markets
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News from the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL): the work of the fifty-sixth commission session Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Anne Mostad-Jensen
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) is the core legal body of the United Nations system in the field of international trade law. It has been carrying out its mandate to further the progressive harmonization and unification of international trade law since 1966. This article provides an overview of the fifty-sixth session of UNCITRAL and the activities of its working
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Electronic bills of lading, transnational and English law: blocking the blockchain? Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Thomas Krebs
The dematerialisation of paper bills of lading has been a goal of the maritime trade community ever since the invention of the Internet, though reaching it had recently seemed increasingly unlikely. The development of blockchain technology has given new impetus to this enterprise, leading to UNCITRAL’s Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records. The recently passed Electronic Trade Documents Act
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Competing claims to crypto-assets Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Jannik Woxholth, Dirk A Zetzsche, Ross P Buckley, Douglas W Arner
At the height of the ‘crypto winter’, with several crypto intermediaries filing for insolvency and subjected to schemes of arrangement, who owns what and who has a claim on what becomes all important. At the same time, distributed ledger technologies are frequently presented as a digital solution to these perennial problems of competing claims to the same asset. This article makes two contributions
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Arbitrage OHADA et éthique Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Guy Armel Tamkam Silatchom
Résumé L’éthique est une exigence capitale dans l’arbitrage l’OHADA ; l’avenir de l’institution en dépend. Si le droit OHADA de l’arbitrage l’a intégrée dans sa conception en imposant des obligations en lien avec elle, on note quelques imperfections et la pratique arbitrale montre que son respect n’est pas la chose la mieux partagée en raison de la présence des comportements déshonorants chez certains
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La liberté statutaire dans la société par action simplifiée en droit OHADA Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Innocent Tchamgwe
A haven for articles of association freedom, in that it constitutes a company tailored to the will of its shareholders, the Simplified Public Limited Company has henceforth imposed itself as a commercial entity whose introduction into the OHADA space has crystallized the contractual design of the commercial company. It allows the partners to freely insert in their articles of association anything that
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Credit instruments to alleviate global food insecurity: focus on crop receipts Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Thomas Johnson
Global institutions have been looking for tools to alleviate food insecurity for years. COVID-19 and the conflict in Ukraine have exacerbated the situation, necessitating the mobilization of additional financial resources. This article focuses on financing instruments that can alleviate food insecurity by promoting financing in the pre-harvest phase, particularly crop receipts. Crop receipts recently
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Perspectives internationales de la réforme du droit français des sûretés Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Sarah Laval
A recent French reform, dated 15 September 2021, which entered into force on 1 January 2022, largely modifies the law of guarantees and security interests. It clarifies a certain number of rules, suppresses several security interests that appeared to be obsolete, and reinforces the protection of warrantors without neglecting the interests of creditors. Adopted to promote security, flexibility, and
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The significance of a forum selection agreement as an indicator of the implied choice of law in international contracts: a global comparative perspective Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Chukwuma Samuel Adesina Okoli
Where the parties to an international contract fail to specify the choice of law, a forum selection agreement is one of the most, if not the most, significant factors to consider in implying the choice of law in many international, supranational, regional instruments, and national jurisdictions. However, it is an ill-defined, notoriously complex, and hotly debated issue as to the weight that should
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Cryptoactifs et appel public à l’épargne en zone CEMAC Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Willy Stéphane Zogo
Résumé L’appel public à l’épargne est un mécanisme charnière dans le fonctionnement du marché financier. En zone CEMAC, les règles y afférentes sont plurielles et mises à l’épreuve par les évolutions technologiques et financières comme les cryptoactifs. La présente réflexion tant à démontrer qu’avant la réforme de la réglementation du marché financier de juillet 2022, la COSUMAF avait une légitimité
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The reception of OHADA law in anglophone Cameroon: appraisal and proposals Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Etoula Essoh Clotilde
This article assesses the extent to which the law under the Organisation pour l’Harmonisation en Afrique du Droit des Affaires (OHADA) has been received in anglophone Cameroon after 26 years of existence, with specific focus on the Fako judicial division.1 With regard to the tenets of qualitative research, it is observed that, from the viewpoint of the legal reception technique, it is indisputable
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The influence of the Italian model of hardship in Latin America and international trade (with some notes from social sciences) Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Sergio García Long
This article studies the Italian model of hardship and how it has influenced Latin American jurisdictions and international trade. On the one hand, it develops how various national jurisdictions have imported the Italian model and how it has been followed by certain international instruments. On the other hand, economics and psychology are applied to analyse the good and bad of the Italian model. Finally
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Through the normative prism: a critical appraisal of the PICC’s provisions on anticipatory non-performance Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Hassan Mohamed
The position of the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC) as a potential unifying influence and resource within the global competitive market for law is indelibly linked to the justifiability and desirability of the black letter rules embodied in the instrument. This article critically analyses the PICC’s provisions on anticipatory non-performance using two common law-oriented
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Exemption clauses: a comparative review of the Unidroit Principles and the Qatar Civil Code Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Amin Dawwas
This article deals with exemption clauses and specifically with respect to their definition, types, and validity. It tackles clauses that exempt the obligor from liability for his or his employees’ non-performance. The article presents and analyses the legal provisions on exemption clauses under the Unidroit Principles and the Qatar Civil Code and discusses the case law made under these legislative
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Termination for breach: the prospects of the Unidroit principles of International Commercial Contracts to interpret and supplement the Indian law of contract Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Saloni Khanderia
Predicated on English law, termination for the breach of contract in India is regulated by the Indian Contract Act, 1872 and the Sale of Goods Act, 1930. However, these legislations do not adopt uniform criteria while stipulating the circumstances in which the parties may exercise their right to rescind the contract for breach. The complex nature of the rules on termination for breach has rendered
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L’appréciation du risque de confusion à l’épreuve du principe de la territorialité des droits de propriété industrielle dans l’espace OAPI Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Ibrahim Bello
Résumé La délimitation du cadre géographique dans lequel le risque de confusion s’apprécie est consubstantielle de la protection des droits querellés dans ledit cadre. C’est l’application du principe de la territorialité des droits qui veut qu’un droit n’est garanti que dans les limites du territoire du pays dans lequel la protection a été acquise. Dès lors, il était récurrent que des personnes exploitant
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News from the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL): the work of the 55th Commission session Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Anne Mostad-Jensen
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) is the core legal body of the United Nations system in the field of international trade law. It has been carrying out its mandate to further the progressive harmonization and unification of international trade law since 1966.1 This article provides an overview of the 55th session of UNCITRAL and the activities of its working groups
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The requirement of ‘power to dispose’ in the Cape Town Convention and its protocols Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Sanam Saidova
The concept of an ‘international interest’ is central to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment. Once an international interest is created, it can be registered in the International Registry, established under the Convention, in which case it will be given priority over competing interests and enforced if the debtor defaults. One of the essential requirements for the
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Legal reasoning and Latin America’s economic development Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Boris Kozolchyk
This article discusses how a method of legal reasoning employed first by French and Spanish legislators and judges and, subsequently, by their Latin American successors hindered the economic development of their respective countries.1 It suggests that significant economic development would be possible if legislators helped enact honest, reasonable, and fair versions of successful market practices in
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Reform of the secured transactions law in Japan: the form and function tested against the global standard Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Souichirou Kozuka, Noriyuki Aoki
Since 2021, the reform of the secured transactions law is officially tabled before the Legislative Council of Japan. Prior to this official deliberation, three preparatory study groups, each sponsored by the Ministry of Justice, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency and Financial Services Agency, discussed the agenda. With differences in the details, these three groups have proposed introducing the new
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ODR arbitration for secured transactions in Colombia Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Nicolás Lozada, Diana Talero
The overall view of the registration and enforcement of secured transactions in Colombia has evolved since the national government adopted the electronic arbitration model rules. This kind of arbitration has facilitated the enforcement of secured transactions without resorting to ordinary courts, saving costs and time in enforcement proceedings. This article explains the step-by-step process that the
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Uniform secured transactions law: the Model Inter-American Law and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions compared Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Spyridon V Bazinas
In an effort to assist in the better understanding and implementation of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions (including its provisions on the registration of notices with respect to security interests) and the Model Inter-American Law on Secured Transactions with the Model Inter-American Registry Regulations, this article compares and briefly explains their key provisions.
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The overlooked building blocks of secured transactions law reforms: policing and the role of organized industries Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Tibor Tajti
Two interlinked building blocks of secured transactions law have often been overlooked during the most recent round of secured transactions law reforms: the role of policing (monitoring) of the debtor and its affairs, and the role of institutionalized industries in the efficient working of secured transactions systems. Policing is often ignored because Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)—the
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La sécurité sur les marchés financiers de l’espace OHADA Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Salifou Mouhouain
The growth of the Member States of OHADA would be difficult if security was not a guiding principle in their financial markets. And so, the CEMAC and UEMOA authorities have taken measures to prevent and address the risks of financial market transactions, namely abuse and default. Thus, on the preventive side, controls are instituted to prevent abuses as well as a guarantee of the default. On the curative
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Enforcement of security rights over seagoing ships, aircraft, and trains in international treaties Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Thomas Keijser, Feben van der Linden van Sprankhuizen
This article focuses on the enforcement of security rights over seagoing ships, aircraft, and trains in several international treaties. It contains a largely chronological overview of the relevant international instruments and their scope of application. In addition, this contribution addresses both the conflict-of-laws provisions and the substantive law provisions on the enforcement remedies at the
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OAS Model Law and UNCITRAL Model Law: a Chilean view Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Sergio Cortés Beltrán
This article provides an analysis of the OAS Model Law and the UNCITRAL Model Law on security interest and its impact on Chile. It analyses also the historical evolution of the Pledge Act and the incorporation of the OAS and UNCITRAL Model Law in Chile.
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The Paraguayan experience in modernizing its secured transactions legal framework Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-07-28 José A Moreno Rodríguez, Lucía E Cazal Zaldivar
In the past decades, numerous countries of the five continents have been substantively modernizing their private law legal framework in topics related to commercial law, including secured transactions. Paraguay has not been an alien to this phenomenon and has adopted numerous harmonizing instruments developed by international organizations such as UNCITRAL, Unidroit, and the Hague Conference on Private
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Immovable-associated equipment in the CTC MAC Protocol: interactions between international interest and local interests under Chilean law Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Camilo Saldías Robles
The Mining, Agriculture and Construction Protocol (MAC Protocol) of the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention or CTC), provides a major innovation in the CTC system by including the concept of ‘immovable-associated equipment’. Article VII of the MAC Protocol’s mandatory declaration regulates immovable-associated equipment and the interaction between the international
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Self-executable remedies of the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment in the light of Chilean constitutional court case law on due process guarantees Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Guillermo Caballero Germain
The purpose of this work is to analyze whether the Constitutional Court decisions on due process as applied to the realization of security interests may hinder an eventual ratification of the Cape Town Convention and its protocols.
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Prolegomena to the UN Convention on International Mediated Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-06-21 David Tan
This article aims to offer a detailed overview of the Singapore Convention on Mediation (formally known as the UN Convention on International Mediated Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation). The Convention establishes a unified, efficient system for the enforcement of international mediated settlement agreements—akin to the framework established for arbitral decisions by the 1958 New York
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L’ingénierie juridique et le droit des sûretés OHADA Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Camille Tchotchou Petche Kamga, Georges Nfoutcha
Résumé La pratique formule sans cesse des garanties efficientes, adaptées aux transactions économiques et financières, à telle enseigne qu’elle nourrit et inspire le droit des sûretés OHADA. Fort de cet enrichissement, le droit des sûretés OHADA devient lui-même un instrument d’ingénierie juridique à partir duquel les parties peuvent combiner des sûretés, les aménager, les enrichir dans les limites
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Exporting the Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment to Africa Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Iyare Otabor-Olubor
This article recommends the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and appeals to African countries to accede to the Luxembourg Protocol on Railway Rolling Stock (Rail Protocol). The discussion in this article focuses on the extent to which Article XXII of the Rail Protocol can be applied with respect to Africa. The article critically analyses the competence of the African
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«L’égalité entre les associés-coopérateurs en droit de l’OHADA» «The equality among cooperative shareholders under the OHADA law» Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Hilarion Kontchop
This study focuses on the equality among cooperative shareholders under the OHADA2 law. It analyses, with regards to the specificity of cooperative companies; the place that OHADA legislature gives to the general principle of equality in cooperative structures. It shows from our analysis that the principle of equality in partners has not only been taken up by the legislature in the Uniform Act on cooperatives
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Economic limits to contractual performance: from hardship to the excessive costs of specific performance Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Rodrigo Momberg Uribe, Álvaro Vidal Olivares
This article analyses two different limits to specific performance of contracts: hardship and excessive or unreasonable costs, looking into their conditions, scope of application, and effects, with the aim of outlining their corresponding field of application, intending to solve the current confusions on the subject.
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Genericism in the uniformity endeavour: a plea against the one-size-fits-all approach Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Boris Praštalo
This article focuses on the practice of United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) to include the text of Article 7 of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) into an array of other instruments, including model laws. Article 7 of the CISG lays out the interpretative methodology of this Convention. The discussion in this article is conducted
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Quo vadis, OHADA Private International Law? Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Justin Monsenepwo
Twenty-eight years after the creation of the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA), private international law remains a “Cinderella subject” in western and central Africa. Indeed, there are no coherent sets of rules regarding the law applicable to contractual obligations, international jurisdiction, as well as the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments under
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Jalons pour un droit uniforme de la preuve dans l’espace OHADA Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Hounkpe J.
RésuméL’harmonisation du droit de la preuve dans les États membres de l’OHADA se justifie par la disparité des normes probatoires aux sources plurielles voire concurrentes, et la mixité du système probatoire partagé entre la preuve libre et la preuve légale. Une harmonisation du droit de la preuve permettrait, en outre, de moderniser la matière et de l’adapter aux réalités africaines. Toutefois, le
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News from the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL): The Work of the Fifty-fourth Commission Session Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Mostad-Jensen A.
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) is the core legal body of the United Nations system in the field of international trade law. It has been carrying out its mandate to further the progressive harmonization and unification of international trade law since 1966.11
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Unidroit Principles and the COVID-19 Economy Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-01-07 Augusto Garcia Sanjur
The international economy was drastically changed by COVID-19. As the pandemic is causing similar problems in different jurisdictions, uniformized solutions are required to have more certainty in a global economy. This is an opportunity for the uniform regulation of international contracts such as the Unidroit Principles. The provisions of the Unidroit Principles, such as force majeure and hardship
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News from the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2022-01-05
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Overcoming Obstacles to the Application of the Unidroit Principles: Proposal for a Descriptive Choice of the Unidroit Principles Clause Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Eckart Brödermann
The article builds on a similar article written ten years ago and published in the Uniform Law Review. It tries to build a bridge between the academic world and the world of practitioners with regard to the perception of the Unidroit Principles.
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Increasing standardization for smart(er) contracts Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Tarek Kadour Aleinieh, Laura Zoboli
Legal standardization traditionally played an important role in contractual relations. With technological and commercial development and expansion of trade from the individual and collective levels to internationalization, it became necessary to create a set of standards to keep pace with this development and facilitate the contractual process. Although smart contracts are considered a leap in the
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Erratum to: Organismes de placement collectif en valeurs mobiliéres et bourse des valeurs mobiliéres de l’Afrique centrale Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Désiré Gatchoup Tchinda
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Long-term contracts and the Unidroit PICC: towards a realistic regulation Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Raul F Zuñiga Peralta
The 2016 Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC) were the first instrument that explicitly regulated long-term contracts in international commerce. Its main goal was to actualize uniform contract law for the emerging needs of international commerce. Despite this effort, scholars have briefly researched how uniform contract law instruments address international commerce as an
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Identifying a system-neutral meaning of a title transfer financial collateral arrangement in the Financial Collateral Directive Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Obiora Ezike
European Union (EU) directives adopt a functional method. This implies that they are drafted on the assumptions that implementing laws are functionally equivalent and, crucially, that the concepts they contain are system neutral without doctrinal commitment. This article primarily tests these assumptions by exploring the definition of title transfer financial collateral arrangements (TTFCA) in the
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Supply chain management and sustainability: the new boundaries of the firm Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2021-11-09 Livia Ventura
A directive on supply chain due diligence applicable to all companies operating on the European Union (EU) market is currently under consideration by the EU institutions. This project, which represents an example of harmonization at the regional level and whose presentation is expected in 2021, places the issue of enterprises’ private procurement process at the heart of the debate. Supply chain strategies
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Electronic Transferable Records: A Gap in Qatari Law That Urgently Needs Filling Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2021-10-31 Nisreen Mahasneh
Qatar has sought to encourage the development of international trade and investment through advancements in its law. In light of the growing importance of electronic operations, it has adopted the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law’s (UNCITRAL) model laws on electronic commerce and electronic signatures. However, they alone are insufficient to respond fully to the present-day needs
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Organismes De Placement Collectif En Valeurs MOBILIères Et Bourse Des Valeurs MobilièRes De l’afrique Centrale Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2021-09-25 Par Désiré Gatchoup Tchinda
Les marchés financiers ont pour importante fonction d’apporter des moyens de financement aux entreprises, aux administrations publiques et États qu’ils vont trouver en émettant des valeurs mobilières par appel public à l’épargne1, via le compartiment du marché primaire. Les investisseurs, en échange de leur apport financier, reçoivent des titres qu’ils pourront ultérieurement revendre en bourse. Les
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Hersch and Elihu Lauterpacht and the relevance of private law sources for international law: from theory to practice against the background of international law's evolution and the adoption of the Unidroit Principles Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2021-08-27 Andrea Marco Steingruber
Private law sources in international law were a main object of study of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, who is considered one of the greatest international lawyers of the last century. In his time, the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law’s Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC) did not exist. The first version of the PICC was only published in 1994, more than three decades
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Le caractère d’ordre public du principe de la libre transmissibilité des actions en droit des sociétés commerciales de l’OHADA Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2021-08-13 Marcel Williams Tsopbeing
In order to protect various interests and guarantee legal certainty, the OHADA legislator has provided the essential rules for each form or category of company. Thus, the distinction between joint stock companies and public limited companies is based, in particular, on free negotiability and/or the free transferability of shares. To preserve this distinction, the principle of the free transferability
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Agreed payment for non-performance under the Unidroit Principles and Arab region laws Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2021-08-03 Amin Dawwas
This article deals with parties’ pre-estimation of the amount of compensation for non-performance (liquidated damages, penalty clause). It discusses this agreed payment in terms of definition, validity, invocation, and possibility of adjustment upon the application of either party. The article presents the provisions of this legal institution in the Unidroit Principles, the Egyptian Civil Code, and
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La liberté des parties dans le droit de la médiation OHADA Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Simplice Gouambe
La consécration de la liberté des parties dans la recherche de la solution à leur différend se manifeste en deux temps : premièrement, lors de la mise en place de la médiation, les parties ont le choix de recourir ou non à la médiation, elles doivent de commun accord procéder à la désignation du médiateur et à la fixation de sa mission. Deuxièmement, lors de la mise en œuvre de la médiation, la liberté
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Transpanting the Unidroit Contract Principles into the Qatar Financial Center: a fresh paradigm for wholesale legal transplants? Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Ilias Bantekas
The Qatar Financial Center (QFC) decided to adopt a set of Contract Regulations that are effectively the equivalent of its contracts statute. The QFC does not have a civil code. The Regulations are largely predicated on the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC). Even so, its drafters introduced, in addition, elements peculiar to the common law of contracts that are not found
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Retour sur la cohabitation entre le droit CEMAC et le droit OHADA dans la liquidation des établissements de crédit en Afrique centrale Uniform Law Review Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Tchotchou Petche Kamga Camille
La liquidation des compartiments bancaire et non bancaire des établissements de crédit se caractérise par un dualisme juridique. Au premier compartiment est appliqué le droit CEMAC, tandis que le second compartiment est soumis au droit OHADA. Ce dualisme juridique est marqué par la prééminence de la réglementation bancaire CEMAC en raison de la spécificité de l’activité bancaire. Toutefois, cette prééminence