UNIDROIT principles applicable to international commercial contracts

Abstract

The creation of a juridical regime that, through uniformity and harmonization, should go beyond the difficulties and uncertainties impeding trade-off relations is a sine qua noncondition for guaranteeing and developing international commerce and economic progress. The first studies necessary for the legislative uniformity of international commercial sales were carried out in the year 1929 by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) at the proposal of the German jurist Ernst Rabel.