The Elgar Companion to UNIDROIT

Edited by Ben Köhler, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Germany, Rishi Gulati, Associate Professor in International Law, University of East Anglia, UK and Barrister, Victorian Bar, Australia, Thomas John, MCIArb, Independent Mediator, Arbitrator and Legal Consultant, the Netherlands

Contents:

Foreword: The modernity of the founding idea of Unidroit in the contemporary world xviii
List of abbreviations xxii
List of Conventions and Regulations cited by short titles xxviii
1 Introduction: The Elgar Companion to Unidroit 1
Ben Köhler

PART I INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES
SECTION 1 UNIDROIT AS A GLOBAL INSTITUTION
2 The beginnings, history and structure 14
Lena Peters
3 Unidroit and Africa – Unidroit principles and African principles 34
Jan L Neels, Eesa A Fredericks and Solomon Okorley
4 Unidroit and Asia 46
Hiroo Sono
5 Unidroit and Latin America 61
Isabel Zuloaga Ríos and María Ignacia Vial Undurraga
6 Tracing the path of the role of technology in Unidroit instruments 79
Teresa Rodríguez De Las Heras Ballell
7 Contributions of Unidroit to sustainable development 95
Jeannette M.E. Tramhel
8 Behavioural economics of internationally unifying private law 113
Johannes Ungerer

PART II CURRENT INSTRUMENTS
SECTION 1 CONTRACTS
9 Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC):
applicability and application 131
Felix Dasser
10 Long-term contracts in the 2016 Unidroit Principles of International
Commercial Contracts 150
Ben Köhler
11 Unidroit Principles and CISG: A first and a second look 164
Pilar Perales Viscasillas
12 Common law responses to the Unidroit Principles of International
Commercial Contracts 177
Paul MacMahon
13 The Unidroit Principles and the harmonization of contract law in West
and Central Africa 192
Justin Monsenepwo
14 The Unidroit Principles in investment arbitration 205
José Antonio Moreno Rodríguez
15 The role of Unidroit and the development of legal structures to support
contract farming 218
A Bryan Endres and Jessica Guarino
16 Agricultural land investment contracts: Analysis from an African perspective 230
Titilayo Adebola

SECTION 2 SECURED TRANSACTIONS
17 Unidroit access to credit instruments 248
Giuliano G. Castellano and Marek Dubovec
18 The Cape Town Convention 20 years on 261
Louise Gullifer
19 The Aircraft Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on International
Interests in Mobile Equipment 276
Roy Goode
20 The public service exemption under the Luxembourg Rail Protocol: The
right balance between the public and private interests? 284
Sanam Saidova
21 Extending private uniform law to outer space: The Space Protocol to
the Cape Town Convention 299
Souichirou Kozuka
22 The MAC Protocol – a new era for the Cape Town Convention 315
William Brydie-Watson
23 The Cape Town Convention in the light of financial market transactions
– international interest and cover pools 335
Florian Heindler
24 Factoring Model Law: Advancing access to finance and promoting
financial inclusion 344
Marek Dubovec and Megumi Hara

SECTION 3 OTHER SELECTED INSTRUMENTS
25 The Unidroit Capital Markets Projects 359
Thomas Keijser
26 The 1995 Unidroit Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported
Cultural Objects 370
Giuditta Giardini
27 Unidroit’s work in the area of civil procedure 390
Christoph Kern

PART III CURRENT AND FUTURE AREAS OF WORK
SECTION 1 CURRENT PROJECTS
28 Possible future protocols to the Cape Town Convention on ships and on
renewable energy equipment 403
Ole Böger
29 Best practices for effective enforcement: Principle of formalisation and
debtor protection 426
Philipp Schlüter
30 Drafting a Model Law on Warehouse Receipts 441
Dora Neo

SECTION 2 OVER THE HORIZON
31 Access to justice and multinational corporations: promoting privately
driven transnational hybrid adjudication 456
Rishi Gulati
32 Unidroit and the struggles in harmonising succession law 475
Francesco Paolo Patti