{"title":"L’harmonisation Des Processus D’intégration En Afrique Noire Francophone","authors":"Serge François Sobze","doi":"10.1093/ulr/unab009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ulr/unab009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract La construction d’une Afrique « politiquement unie » ! Tel est l’un des axes majeurs du projet d’intégration de l’Union africaine illustré dans son Agenda 2063. L’Afrique, par cette option, situe l’intégration politique au premier plan de ses objectifs et domaines prioritaires pour les dix premières années de son agenda. En revanche, elle ne peut y parvenir qu’à travers un partage des expériences qui rend compte de la symbiose qui existe entre les différents processus d’intégration et qui s’inspire soit de l’idée du foisonnement ou de la coexistence des organisations régionales d’intégration, soit de celle d’harmonisation ou de coordination des politiques nationales qui se dégagent des différents traités, que ce soit celui révisé de la CEMAC ou celui d’Abuja établissant la Communauté économique africaine. La présente étude entend expérimenter cette dynamique de convergence des schémas d’intégration régionale dans l’optique de mutualiser les intérêts pour une intégration collective et complète. Ainsi suggère-t-elle aux organisations régionales et sous-régionales l’option d’une approche prudente dans l’ébauche des politiques sanitaires d’intégration communes à l’effet d’affronter l’insécurité sanitaire actuelle occasionnée par la Covid-19. De ce fait, à travers une méthode juridique et une technique comparative des modèles d’intégration, l’étude interroge sur l’harmonisation des processus comme gage de formation de l’intégration régionale africaine. Il s’agit d’un procédé fédératif ayant pour finalité la construction d’un modèle africain d’intégration et qui paraît mieux adapté aux réalités endogènes résolument tournées vers la pluralité que vers l’unité du droit.","PeriodicalId":42756,"journal":{"name":"Uniform Law Review","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89348973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"News from the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL): The Work of the Fifty-third Commission Session","authors":"Anne Mostad-Jensen","doi":"10.1093/ulr/unab012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ulr/unab012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42756,"journal":{"name":"Uniform Law Review","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89323182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La Responsabilité Civile Du Demandeur Pour Le Préjudice Causé Par Une Mesure Provisoire Ordonnée Par Les Arbitres","authors":"Van Dai Do","doi":"10.1093/ulr/unab005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ulr/unab005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Au niveau international comme niveau national, les arbitres sont de plus en plus autorisés à ordonner les mesures provisoires. Il se peut cependant que ces mesures soient rétroactivement injustifiées et causent un préjudice à autrui. Lorsqu’une mesure provisoire arbitrale cause un préjudice, la personne lésée peut-elle en demander la réparation ? Qui en est responsable ? Comment la demande de la victime sera-t-elle traitée ? La loi type et certaines lois nationales en matière d’arbitrage reconnaissent la responsabilité du demandeur en réparation du préjudice causé par une mesure provisoire arbitrale mais laissent sans réponse plusieurs questions. Le problème de réparation du préjudice causé aux tiers demeure également incertain pour ces systèmes. Pour avoir une vue d’ensemble, la présente étude envisage alors la responsabilité du demandeur (admission, conditions et régime) à l’égard d’une partie aussi bien qu’à l’égard des tiers.","PeriodicalId":42756,"journal":{"name":"Uniform Law Review","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88663274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political barriers in the ratification of international commercial law conventions","authors":"J. Hoekstra","doi":"10.1093/ULR/UNAB003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ULR/UNAB003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article analyses the ratification of international commercial law conventions. The Convention for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is almost 40 years old. In 2012, Switzerland proposed to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) to evaluate the CISG and assess whether there was need for a new convention. While UNCITRAL decided not to pursue this further, the questions that Switzerland raised remain pertinent. This is not just with regard to the legal and commercial need of a new convention but also regarding the political viability of such a project. This article focuses on the latter question. It analyses the main considerations that play a part in the ratification process of international commercial law conventions. It concentrates on agenda setting and the key actors and analyses the main barriers encountered during ratification. While this article is written in the context of the aforementioned proposal, the analysis has broader applicability to the ratification process of international commercial law conventions. The main conclusions highlight the importance of raising the visibility of commercial law conventions through lobbying by key stakeholders, including trade associations, formulating agencies, and businesses. The importance of this article lies in understanding the political barriers in the ratification of international commercial law conventions.","PeriodicalId":42756,"journal":{"name":"Uniform Law Review","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74981617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The new Uruguayan private international law: an open door to party autonomy in international contracts","authors":"Eduardo Florio de León","doi":"10.1093/ULR/UNAB007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ULR/UNAB007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 On 17 November 2020, the General Law on Private International Law (Law 19.920) was approved. This Law resulted from a process of hard work that took over two decades of discussions and debates.1 With this Law, Uruguay becomes one of a group of countries that have already carried out this kind of reform, particularly in regard to international commercial law and international contracts. The new Law 19.920 allows parties to choose the applicable law (State or non-State law) to regulate their international contractual obligations. This reform has a real disruptive imprint since Uruguay leaves behind its old and anachronistic regulation of the matter. This article provides a general analysis of the regulation of international commercial law under Law 19.920 (Articles 13 and 51) and the new regime applicable to international contracts, including the parties’ right to choose the applicable law (Article 45) (State or non-State law), which increases their autonomy in comparison with the previous regime.","PeriodicalId":42756,"journal":{"name":"Uniform Law Review","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79378385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent developments in the law of secured transactions of movables under the new Chinese Civil Code","authors":"Jing Zhang","doi":"10.1093/ULR/UNAB008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ULR/UNAB008","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In May 2020, the first Chinese Civil Code was enacted. This Civil Code incorporates several modifications of the law of secured transactions concerning corporeal movables and receivables. These modifications are made under the influence not only of international conventions, model laws, and legislative guides by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law but also of overseas legislation, especially Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. First, a semi-functional approach is taken by the Civil Code. The security agreement includes, in addition to typical security contracts, ‘other contracts having a function of security’. Consequently, the rules concerning the property right of charge (hypothec) are also applicable to reservation of ownership, financial lease, factoring, and other security interests, provided that there is no lex specialis. This leaves a larger space of autonomy for individual parties. Moreover, the new Civil Code intends to construct a more inclusive register by requiring reservation of ownership, financial lease, factoring, and other types of security rights to be registered to be effective against third parties. The future register for ordinary corporeal movables and claims will very possibly be a notice-filing system.","PeriodicalId":42756,"journal":{"name":"Uniform Law Review","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82862616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is specific jurisdiction dead and did we murder it? An appraisal of the Brussels Ia Regulation in the globalizing context of the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention","authors":"M. Poesen","doi":"10.1093/ULR/UNAB006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ULR/UNAB006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Specific jurisdiction in the European Union (EU) is in a state of flux. While its theoretical foundation varies among legal systems, the explanatory model in EU law—established by the Brussels Ia Regulation—is the close geographical connection between a dispute’s subject matter and a court. It is believed that the court with such a connection is best positioned to judge the matter. Therefore, Article 7 of the Brussels Ia Regulation allocates jurisdiction over subject matters as broadly defined as contracts and torts to the court of an array of predetermined locations. However, in reality the courts so identified will not always have a close connection to the dispute. Nonetheless, the court of that place has jurisdiction. This article will evaluate the legitimacy of denying a more concrete role to the linkage between a forum and a dispute. It will also contrast the current state of play in the EU with the approach taken in the jurisdictional filters featuring in the 2019 Hague Judgments Convention.","PeriodicalId":42756,"journal":{"name":"Uniform Law Review","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80006854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tacit choice of law in international commercial contracts: an analysis of Asian jurisdictions and the Asian Principles of Private International Law","authors":"G. J. Bouwers","doi":"10.1093/ULR/UNAB002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ULR/UNAB002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article analyses the determination of a tacit choice of law in international commercial contracts in China (including Hong Kong), Japan, Singapore, and South Korea (the Republic of Korea). The article also examines the proposed Asian Principles of Private International Law (APPIL). The APPIL is intended as a model for Asian jurisdictions to interpret or supplement their private international law rules. Legislators in these jurisdictions may also use it to enact their own statutes on private international law. In the globalized era, the need for certainty regarding the rules and principles of choice of law is of the utmost importance in international commercial contracts. The APPIL may prove particularly useful in bringing more clarity to the issues related to the determination of a tacit choice of law in the region.","PeriodicalId":42756,"journal":{"name":"Uniform Law Review","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81848366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First Chinese arbitral award applying the Unidroit Principles","authors":"Hao Zilin","doi":"10.1093/ulr/unaa025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ulr/unaa025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42756,"journal":{"name":"Uniform Law Review","volume":"26 1","pages":"627-633"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72760610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Should Iran join the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods?","authors":"A. Abrishami","doi":"10.1093/ULR/UNAA015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ULR/UNAA015","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 After 40 years of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), it is still controversial whether the CISG has been a successful uniform law in practice. It is, nevertheless, evident that the number of ratifications of the CISG has been increasing. This article aims to highlight the important question of whether Iran should implement the CISG. In addition, it argues that irrespective of the possible ratification of the CISG, the Iranian contract law needs to be modernized. In particular, advantages and disadvantages of the possible adoption of the CISG in Iran are explored. This article argues that acceding to the CISG will provide Iran with a number of opportunities, including the promotion of international trade with its trading partners. In proposing a model for the modernization of the Iranian Civil Code (CCI), the author, however, argues that the CISG is not the best option. Instead, the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC) is the most appropriate model for reforming the Iranian contract law. This article concludes by suggesting that the combination of the CISG and the PICC is the best way forward for the Iranian legal system.","PeriodicalId":42756,"journal":{"name":"Uniform Law Review","volume":"82 1","pages":"634-663"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73060596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}