Sense and sensibilities: The dcfr and the preservation of cultural and linguistic plurality

European Review of Contract Law

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 281-303

  Sefton Green, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

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EID: 84881823445     PISSN: 16149920     EISSN: 16149939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ERCL.2008.281     Document Type: Article

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1. The authenticity of this remark is doubtful since Monnet does not mention it in his memoirs.
2. Fenet, n 2 above, 236.
3. Achieving equality of languages requires State intervention based on the postulate that the State is capable of being even-handed amongst its citizens.
4. The slippage from plurality to diversity is deliberate.
5. Campana, n 17 above.
6. Partisans of linguistic universalism, see below, might contend that such a language is not imposed but merely lexicalised.
7. Legrand, n 20 above. For a more nuanced version see Smith, n 24 above.
8. See Nic Shuibne, n 7 above, 1.
9. A New Framework for Multilingualism, n 5 above, I, III.
10. H. Collins, Regulating Contracts (Oxford: OUP, 1999).
11. A New Framework for Multilingualism, n 5 above, III.I.
12. See DCFR, n 25 above, n 13, 10.
13. DCFR, n 25 above, n 49, 23.
14. Notice that testaments are excluded from the scope of the DCFR under I-1:101(2)(b).
15. Under French law, the main consequences of the distinction relate to evidence.
16. See Smith, n 24 above, 130 who considers that the flexible nature of language means that it will not be an absolute obstacle to legal integration.
17. I exclude the Rome Convention /Regulation for the purposes of the discussion.
18. Urban, n 22 above, 55.
19. Lindroos-Hovinheimo, n 51 above, 373.
20. DCFR n 25 above, Art I-1:102(3)(a).
21. Urban, n 22 above, 53.
22. Urban, n 22 above, 54.
23. See n 9 above for some illustrations.
24. For a notable exception, see Whittaker, n 39 above.
25. A language for the law or a legal language would not necessarily eradicate linguistic plurality if one follows the idea that we can use languages for different functions or registers.
26. It may not be but a multilingual economy would really have to be implemented beforehand, through language learning, etc so that every European is, at least, bilingual.
27. See Legrand, n 20 above