UNIDROIT principles 2004 - The new edition of the principles of international commercial contracts adopted by the international institute for the unification of private law

Uniform Law Review

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-40

  Bonell, Michael Joachim ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

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EID: 78649945411     PISSN: 11243694     EISSN: 20509065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ulr/9.1.5     Document Type: Review

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2. UNIDROIT 1997 - C.D. (76) 17, at 24.
3. Thus expressly M. EVANS, “Uniform Law: A Bridge Too Far?”, in 3 Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law (1995), 145 et seq. (at 159);
4. similarly H. KÖTZ, “Rechtsvereinheitlichung - Nutzen, Kosten, Methoden, Ziele”, in RabelsZeitschrift 1986, 1 et seq. (at 11 et seq.).
5. nd ed. (1997), 231-233.
6. M.J. Bonell (ed.), The UNIDROIT Principles in Practice - Case Law and Bibliography on the Principles of Commercial Contracts, Transnational Publishers, Inc., Ardsley, New York, 2002, 11-24, 36-41, 43-44, 71-73, 125-126, 163, 183, 201, 257-258, 281, 295, 313-314.
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8. Cf. V. MIKELENAS, “Unification and Harmonisation of Law at the Turn of the Millennium: the Lithuanian Experience”, in Unif. L. Rev. / Rev. dr. unif., 2000, 243 et seq.
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11. Cf. B. IZADI, “Harmonisation of Commercial Law Contract Law in the ECO Region: a Role for the UNIDROIT Principles”, in Unif. L. Rev. / Rev. dr. unif., 2001, 301 et seq.
12. Cf. A. ROSETT, “Improving the Uniform Commercial Code”, in Centro di studi e ricerche di diritto comparato e straniero: Saggi, conferenze e seminari No. 29, Rome (1997).
13. Cf., also for further references, BONELL, An International Restatement ..., supra note 9, 192-213.
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15. Cf. M.J. BONELL, “Pre-contractual Liability, the Brussels Jurisdiction Convention and ... the UNIDROIT Principles (Case 334/00 Tacconi v. HWS)”, in Mélanges offerts à Marcel Fontaine (2003), 359 et seq.
16. F. DESSEMONTET, “Use of the UNIDROIT Principles to Interpret and Supplement Domestic Law”, in ICC/UNIDROIT, supra note 42, 39 et seq.
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22. For an exhaustive comparative analysis, see R. ZIMMERMANN, Comparative Foundations of a European Law of Set-Off and Prescription (2002), 32 et seq.
23. For further references see M.J. BONELL, “Limitation Periods”, in Hartkamp et al, supra note 77.
24. Cf. e.g. M. FONTAINE, “Content and Performance”, in 40 The American Journal of Comparative Law (1992), 645 et seq.
25. Cf. M.J. BONELL, “The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts and the Principles of European Contract Law: Similar Rules for the Same Purposes?”, in Unif. L. Rev. / Rev. dr. unif., 1996, 229-246.
26. Cf. O. Lando - H. Beale (eds.), Principles of European Contract Law, Parts I and II (2000), xxiii.
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31. Cf. M.J. BONELL, “Do We Need a Global Commercial Code?”, in Unif. L. Rev. / Rev. dr. unif., 2000, 469 et seq.;
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33. O. LANDO, “Principles of European Contract Law and UNIDROIT Principles: Moving from Harmonisation to Unification?”, in Unif. L. Rev. / Rev. dr. unif., 2003, 123 et seq. (at 132-133).
34. th Anniversary (1973), 3 et seq. (at 45).