Unidroit

Unidroit in International Trade

Meaning of Unidroit, according to the Dictionary of International Trade (Global Negotiator): The Institute for the Unification of Private Law is an international governmental organization headquartered in Rome whose tasks are to study needs and methods for modernising, harmonising and coordinating private and in particular commercial law as between States and groups of States and to formulate uniform law instruments, principles and rules to achieve those objectives.

Membership of UNIDROIT is restricted to States acceding to the UNIDROIT Statute. UNIDROIT’s 63 member States are drawn from the five continents and represent a variety of different legal, economic and political systems as well as different cultural backgrounds.

INSTRUMENTS ADOPTED BY UNIDROIT OR BASED ON UNIDROIT’S WORK: Subjects

• Carriage by Road
• Capital Markets
• Contracts in General
• International Sales
• Other Specific Contracts
• Secured Transactions
• Civil Procedure
• Cultural Property
• Family Law
• Tourism

INSTRUMENTS ADOPTED BY OTHER ORGANISATIONS: Subjects

• Air Law
• Law of the Sea
• Inland Navigation
• Carriage by Air
• Carriage by Rail
• Carriage by Road
• Carriage by Sea
• Multimodal Transport
• Company Law
• Capital Markets
• Commercial Law in General
• Contracts in General
• International Sales
• Other Specific Contracts
• Electronic Commerce
• Secured Transactions
• Product Liability
• Insolvency
• Banking Law
• Negotiable Instruments
• Jurisdiction
• Civil Procedure
• Private International Law
• Arbitration
• Other Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
• Intellectual and Industrial Property
• Citizenship and Related Rights
• Family Law
• Cultural Property
• Environment
• Procurement and Infrastructure Development
• Tourism
• Telecommunications
• Criminal Law

UNIDROIT

Embracing mainstream international law, this section on unidroit explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.

UNIDROIT in Private International Law

This section contain conflict of laws information and cross references related to unidroit on some major countries and additional jurisdictions. It covers key issues involved when citizens face international situations. Information on private international law cases and courts related to unidroit is provided here. Details on private international law books are available here.

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See Also

Further Reading

• Herbert Kronke, “UNIDROIT”, Encyclopedia of Private International Law, Edward Elgar, 2017

Resources

Further Reading

• The entry “unidroit” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press