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75 Tul. L. Rev. 1015 (2000-2001)
Comparative Law and Lawmaking

handle is hein.journals/tulr75 and id is 1035 raw text is: Comparative Law and Lawmaking Ole Lando* I. ULIS, ULFIS, AND THE CISG .................................................. 1017 11. THE PECL AND THE UNIDROIT PRINCIPLES: THEIR PuRPosE AND THE SUBJEcTs TREATED .................................... 1018 III. How THE CECL AND THE UNIDROIT GROUP WORK ........... 1020 IV. CONSENSUS OR DISAGREEMENT9 ............................................. 1022 V. THE SOuRcES OF INSPIRATION .................................................. 1025 VI. SALiENTFEATURES ................................................................... 1028 A. Freedom of Contract ........................................................ 1028 B. R eliance ............................................................................ 1028 C. Good Faith and Fair Dealing ......................................... 1030 D. Simplicity ofLanguage .................................................... 1031 E. Rules Rich in Implications ............................................... 1032 In this Article, I shall not do what has been expected of me. I shall not treat in general terms the use of foreign, international, and comparative material by legislators and courts.' Instead, I will describe how the various laws and legal material influenced those who made the Principles of European Contract Law2 (PECL), which were prepared by the Commission on European Contract Law (CECL), and the Principles of International Commercial Contracts (UN[DROIT Principles or UNIDROIT), which were drafted by a working group * Professor Emeritus, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark); President of the Commission of European Contract Law. 1. See, e.g., JAN KROPHOLLER, INTERNATIONALES EINEIrrsREcHT: ALLGEMEINE LEHREN 3 (Tfibingen 1975); KONRAD ZWEIGERT & HEIN KoTz, INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE LAW §§ 1-4, at 1-62 (Tony Weir trans., 3d ed. 1998); Helmut Coing, Rechtsvergleichung als Grundlage von Gesetzgebung im 19. Jahrhundert, in Jus COMMUNE VII (1978); Ren6 David, The International Unification ofPrivate Law, in 2 INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPARATiVE LAW ch.5 (1971). 2. COMM'N OF EUROPEAN CONTRACr LAW, PRINCIPLES OF EUROPEAN CONTRAcr LAW, PART I: PERFORMANCE, NoN-PERFORMANCE AND REMEDIES (Ole Lando & Hugh Beale eds., 1995) [hereinafter PECL 1]; CoMM'N OF EUROPEAN CONTRACT LAW, PRINCIPLES OF EUROPEAN CoNTRACr LAW, PARTS I & II (Ole Lando & Hugh Beale eds., 2000) [hereinafter PECL I]. On PECL II, see Ole Lando, Some Features of the Law of Contract in the Third Millennium, 40 ScANDINAViAN STUD. L. 343, 402 (2000). 3. INT'L INST. FORTHE UNIFICATION OF PRIVATE LAW, PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL COMMRiCAL CONTRACTS, at xx, 256 (1994) [hereinafter UNIDROIT PRNCIPLES]. 1015

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