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HCCH Choice of Law Principles in International Commercial Contracts: Ten-Year Review—Implementation, Party Autonomy, Non-State Norms, and Emerging Digital and Arbitration Issues

Published on: 27 November 2024

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The Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts (HCCH Principles)

The Official Commentary to the Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts, Hague Conference on International Private Law, The Hague 2015, serves as companion guidance to be consulted alongside the instrument’s full text. It is supporting material to be read in conjunction with the instrument’s complete text. What are the HCCH Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts? Every contemporary legal order maintains domestic private international law rules, which frequently vary from State to State. Divergent decisions and differing readings of private international law provisions (including those governing choice of law) generate significant uncertainty for international trade and commerce. For years, the challenge of preventing inconsistent judicial outcomes has stood at the forefront of concern for international lawyers. That concern has driven, among others, international organisations such as the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) to pursue the unification of private international law. With 91 members (90 States and the European Union, as at September 2024) drawn from every continent, the HCCH is the leading organisation in this field. The HCCH’s statutory mandate is to strive for the ‘progressive unification’ of the rules...

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