Practitioners in the United States may be unfamiliar with the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (the “UNIDROIT Principles”), as indeed I was until my good friend Professor Eckart Brödermann of Hamburg, Germany commended them to my attention. They are an amalgam of common and civil law that come together in 211 articles to provide a balanced set of general rules to govern the interpretation and enforcement of international contracts. The UNIDROIT Principles…READ MORE
Roger E. Barton