Book contents
- Convergence and Divergence of Private Law in Asia
- Convergence and Divergence of Private Law in Asia
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Uniform Law and the Production and Circulation of Legal Models
- 3 Convergence, Divergence and Diversity in Financial Law: The Experience of the UNCITRAL Model Law and Cross-Border Insolvency
- 4 The New York Convention and the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration: Existing Models for Legal Convergence in Asia?
- 5 Convergences and Divergences: Comparing Contractual and Organizational Models in International Regulatory Cooperation
- 6 Law as a Market Standard: Voluntary Unification in Contract and Company Law
- 7 Is the Harmonisation of Asian Contract Law Possible? The Example of the European Union
- 8 The Presumption of Regularity in Chinese Corporate Contracting: Evidence and the Prospect of Regional Convergence
- 9 Mind the Gap: Studying the Implementation Discrepancy for the ASEAN Economic Community
- 10 The Rule of Law as Key to the ASEAN Legal Order: How Can It Be Ensured?
- 11 How Asian Should Asian Law Be?
- Index
7 - Is the Harmonisation of Asian Contract Law Possible? The Example of the European Union
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2022
- Convergence and Divergence of Private Law in Asia
- Convergence and Divergence of Private Law in Asia
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Uniform Law and the Production and Circulation of Legal Models
- 3 Convergence, Divergence and Diversity in Financial Law: The Experience of the UNCITRAL Model Law and Cross-Border Insolvency
- 4 The New York Convention and the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration: Existing Models for Legal Convergence in Asia?
- 5 Convergences and Divergences: Comparing Contractual and Organizational Models in International Regulatory Cooperation
- 6 Law as a Market Standard: Voluntary Unification in Contract and Company Law
- 7 Is the Harmonisation of Asian Contract Law Possible? The Example of the European Union
- 8 The Presumption of Regularity in Chinese Corporate Contracting: Evidence and the Prospect of Regional Convergence
- 9 Mind the Gap: Studying the Implementation Discrepancy for the ASEAN Economic Community
- 10 The Rule of Law as Key to the ASEAN Legal Order: How Can It Be Ensured?
- 11 How Asian Should Asian Law Be?
- Index
Summary
The East and South-East Asian jurisdictions and that of the European Union have in common the heterogeneity of their contract law traditions. In particular, both in the case of Asia and Europe, there is a high level of divergence when it comes to the contact law regimes reflecting different legal traditions. In the European Union, among its twenty-eight Member States, there exists twenty-nine different contract law regimes. Each of the EU Member States has its own contract law regime, but the United Kingdom has both English and Scottish contract law. Similar to the case of the Asian jurisdictions, in the European Union there is also a high level of contract law heterogeneity. The contract law jurisdictions of the European Union have already a decades-long history of more or less successful attempts at national and regional harmonisation and the more recent attempt to develop a pan-European Civil Code. In that sense, Durovic and Howells posit, where Asian jurisdictions attempt to harmonise their contract and commercial laws, the European experience may potentially be valuable for better comprehending the process of promoting harmonisation. In particular, the experience gained from the European contract law process is primarily beneficial to understand whether harmonisation among different contract law legal traditions is at all possible, and, if, so, to what extent and under what conditions. It is important to note that the European model is not to be taken as ‘a perfect model’, but only as a valuable practical experience which may help explain the complexity and challenges of the harmonisation process.
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- Convergence and Divergence of Private Law in Asia , pp. 135 - 152Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022