Tacit Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts. An Analysis of Future Instruments of Developmental Organisations
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2023/v26i0a14301Keywords:
international commercial law, private international law, choice of law, tacit choice of law, the African Union, OHADA, ASEAN, Asian Principles of Private International LawAbstract
This article examines the various regional and supranational organisations of emerging countries that could benefit from a codification of private international law rules. They include the Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa (OHADA), the African Union (AU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In addition, the article analyses the envisaged instruments that may be especially relevant in the context of the abovementioned organisations. These include the Preliminary Draft Uniform Act on the Law of Obligations in the OHADA Region, the proposed African Principles on the Law Applicable to International Commercial Contracts and the Asian Principles of Private International Law. More specifically, the article focusses on the provisions regarding the determination of the law applicable, particularly those rules relating to a tacit choice of law in international commercial contracts.
Downloads
References
Bibliography
Literature
Aziz D "Global Public-Private Partnerships in International Law" 2012 AsianJIL 339-374 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S2044251312000148
Bouwers GJ "Tacit Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts: The Position in Indonesian, Malaysian and Singaporean Private International Law" 2019 CILSA 109-125
Bouwers GJ "Tacit Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts: An Analysis of Asian Jurisdictions and the Asian Principles of Private International Law" 2021 1 Unif L Rev 14-42 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ulr/unab002
Bouwers GJ Tacit Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts: A Global Comparative Study (Luzerner Beiträge zur Rechtswissenschaft (LBR) Herausgegeben von Jörg Schmid im Auftrag der Rechtswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Luzern Band 156 (Schulthess Zürich 2021)
Chen W and Goldstein G "The Asian Principles of Private International Law: Objectives, Contents, Structure and Selected Topics on Choice of Law" 2017 J Priv Int L 411-434 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17441048.2017.1355508
Davidson PL "The ASEAN Way and the Role of Law in ASEAN Economic Cooperation" 2004 SYBIL 165-176
Fredericks EA Contractual Capacity in Private International Law (Dr Jur thesis University of Leiden 2016)
Gama L "Tacit Choice of Law in the Hague Principles" 2017 Unif L Rev 336-350 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ulr/unx022
Hardjowahono B The Unification of Private International Law on International Commercial Contracts within the Regional Legal System of ASEAN (Ulrik Huber Institute for Private International Law Groningen 2005)
Mandery M Party Autonomy in Contractual and Non-Contractual Obligations (Peter Lang Frankfurt am Main 2014) DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-04496-6
Mouloul A Understanding the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Laws in Africa 2nd ed (OHADA Youndé 2009)
Neels JL "The Role of the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts in the Revision of the Preliminary Draft Uniform Act on the Law of Obligations in the OHADA Region" 2018 THRHR 464-473
Neels JL "The African Principles on the Law Applicable to International Commercial Contracts: A First Drafting Experiment" 2021 Unif L Rev 426-436 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ulr/unaa016
Neels JL and Fredericks EA "Tacit Choice of Law in the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Contracts" 2011 De Jure 101-110
Neels JL and Fredericks EA "An Introduction to the African Principles of Commercial Private International Law" 2018 Stell LR 347-356
Nygh P Autonomy in International Contracts (Oxford University Press Oxford 1999) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198262701.001.0001
Takasugi N and Elbalti B "The Asian Principles of Private International Law" in Girsberger D, Kadner Graziano T and Neels LJ (eds) Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts: Global Perspectives on the Hague Principles (Oxford University Press Oxford 2021) 399-413
International instruments
African Principles on the Law Applicable to International Commercial Contracts (preliminary draft, 2021)
ASEAN Charter (2008)
ASEAN Declaration (1967)
Constitutive Act of the African Union (2000)
Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts (2015)
Organisation of African Unity Charter (1963)
Projet de Texte Uniforme Portant Droit Général des Obligations Dans L'espace OHADA (2015) (Preliminary Draft Uniform Act on the Law of Obligations in the OHADA Region)
Sirte Declaration (1999)
Treaty on the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa (1993)
Treaty to Amend the Treaty for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa (2008)
Uniform Act on Contracts for the Carriage of Goods by Road (2003)
Uniform Act on Cooperatives (2010)
Uniform Act Organising Securities (2011)
Uniform Act Organising Simplified Recovery Procedures and Measures of Execution (1998)
Uniform Act on Arbitration Law (2017)
Uniform Act on Bankruptcy Proceedings (2015)
Uniform Law on Commercial Companies and Economic Interest Groupings (2014)
Uniform Act on General Commercial Law (2011)
Uniform Act on Mediation (2017)
Internet sources
Amadeo K 2021 ASEAN, Its Members, Purpose, and History https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-asean-3305810 accessed 25 June 2021
ASEAN date unknown https://asean.org/asean/about-asean
Association of Southeast Asian Nations date unknown The ASEAN Charter https://asean.org/book/the-asean-charter/ accessed 5 May 2023
ASEAN 2015 https://asean.org/asean-economic-community
Association of Southeast Asian Nations 2015 ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint 2025 https://asean.org/asean-economic-community-blueprint-2025/ accessed 5 May 2023
Association of Southeast Asian Nations 2021 ASEAN Key Figures 2021 https://asean.org/book/asean-key-figures-2021/ 28 April 2023
African Union date unknown Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want https://au.int/en/agenda2063/overview accessed 3 May 2023
African Union date unknown AU in a Nutshell https://au.int/en/au-nutshell accessed 28 April 2023
Exploring Africa date unknown The Birth of the African Union http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/?s=african+union&submit=Search accessed 28 April 2023
Infoplease 2023 https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/social-science/government/intl-orgs/african-union
Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement https://investasean.asean.org/asean-free-trade-area-agreements/view/757/newsid/872/asean-trade-in-goods-agreement.html accessed 5 May 2023
Nuclear Threat Initiative date unknown Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) https://www.nti.org/learn/treaties-and-regimes/
association-southeast-asian-nations-asean accessed 10 January 2021
Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa date unknown General Overview https://www.ohada.org/en/general-overview/ accessed 28 April 2023
Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa date unknown Home https://www.ohada.org/en/ accessed 28 April 2023
SAHO 2019 https://sahistory.org.za/article/african-union-au
SAHO 2019 https://sahistory.org.za/-topic/organi-sation-african-unity-oauSouth African History Online 2019 Organisation of African Unity (OAU) https://sahistory.org.za/-topic/organi-sation-african-unity-oau accessed 28 April 2023
Schulz RK 2019 African Union https://www.thoughtco.com/african-union-definition-1434325 accessed 7 February 2022
Wikipedia 2023 Organisation of African Unity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_of_African_Unity accessed 28 April 2023
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2023 Garth J Bouwers
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
.png){kind=spacer}