The unidroit principles and the law governing commercial contracts in Southeast Asia

Uniform Law Review

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1005-1015

  Seto Hardjowahono, Bayu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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EID: 84891577244     PISSN: 11243694     EISSN: 20509065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ulr/7.4.1005     Document Type: Review

References (13)

1. Professor, Parahyangan Catholic University, School of Law, Bandung (Indonesia); Fulbright
2. Rodolfo C. SEVERINO, “The ASEAN Way and the Rule of Law”, in his address as the ASEAN Secretary General at the International Law Conference on ASEAN Legal Systems and Regional Integration, Asia-Europe Institute & Faculty of Law University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 2001.
3. See Lawan THANADSILLAPAKUL, Economic Integration in ASEAN, unpublished, 2002.
4. See Ross GARNAUT, who also quoted viewpoints addressed by Renato RUGGIERO, Open Regionalism and Trade Liberalization, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore), 1996, 1-4.
5. Cf. Arthur ROSETT, “UNIDROIT Principles and Harmonization of International Commercial Law: Focus on Chapter Seven”, Unif. L. Rev. / Rev. dr. unif., 1997, 441, reproduced in http://www.UNIDROIT.org/english/publications/review/articles/1997-3.htm at 2-5.
6. mostly confined to preliminary accords on the general objectives and global framework of such cooperation, while there are none in the form of actual working programmes to realise these objectives. See SIA AIK Kor / TAN BOON Gin, “ASEAN Regional Efforts and Cooperation on Legal and Judicial Reform”, Paper given at the World Bank Conference on “Empowerment, Security and Opportunity through Law and Justice, Saint Petersburg (Russia), July 2001.
7. See Michael Joachim Bonell (ed.), The UNIDROIT Principles in Practice, Transnational Publishers, Inc. (New York), 2002, at (pp.) ix-xiii.
8. For general historical antecedents, see Michael Joachim BONELL, “The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts”, in: Center for Transnational Law (ed.), Transnational Law in Commercial Legal Practice, Center for Transnational Law (Münster), 1999, at 8 et seq.
9. nd edition, Transnational Publishers (New York), 1997, 171 et seq.
10. See Friedrich K. JUENGER, “The Problem with Private International Law”, in: Jürgen Basedow et al (eds.), Private Law in the International Arena - Liber Amicorum Kurt Siehr, Asser Press, 2000, at 304, 305.
11. See Art. 3 of the 1980 Rome Convention. For comments, see Russel J. WEINTRAUB, “Lex Mercatoria and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts”, in: Patrick J. Borchers / Joachim Zekoll (eds.), International Conflicts of Laws for the Third Millenium, Essays in Honor of Friedrich K. Juenger, Transnational Publishers (New York), 2001, at 152, 153.
12. See further Friedrich K. JUENGER, “The Lex Mercatoria and Private International Law”, Unif. L. Rev. / Rev. dr. unif., 2000, at 171-187.
13. th Anniversary Congress: “Worldwide Harmonisation of Private Law and Regional Economic Integration”, Rome (Italy), 27-28 September 2002 (to be published in the Acts of the Congress, forthcoming in Unif. L. Rev. / Rev. dr. unif.).