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Principles of Asian Contract Law at the Crossroads of Standardization and Legal Pluralism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2021

A. Grebieniow
A. Grebieniow*
Affiliation:
Warsaw Centre for Transnational Law, Faculty of Law, University of Warsaw
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E-mail: a.grebieniow@wpia.uw.edu.pl
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Abstract

The Principles of Asian Contract Law (PACL) are the most recent addition to the series of uniform laws regarding transnational commercial contracts. This time, the harmonization initiative must address the problem of a great variety of legal traditions, all of which are quite difficult to reconcile. The author focuses on the object and objectives of the PACL by reconsidering the notion of “Asian law” and the alleged cultural neutrality of contract law as a legal discipline. The paper argues that the PACL project lacks clarity. Its ambitious objectives, while apparently intelligible, fail to produce the desired results in their entirety: the Asian regional harmonization of contract law turns out to resemble its occidental forerunners. The study goes beyond the traditional comparative law. It explores the model law (in the making) in a broader context of legal policy, parallel regional private-law-making efforts in the field of contract law as well as in the context of legal globalization.

Keywords

Asian lawtransnational lawsoft lawcontract lawharmonizationlegal pluralism
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Research Article
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Asian Journal of Law and Society , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 2023 , pp. 306 - 338
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Asian Journal of Law and Society

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