Table Of ContentIus Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice 102
Salvatore Mancuso
Mauro Bussani Editors
The Principles
of BRICS
Contract Law
A Comparative Study of General
Principles Governing International
Commercial Contracts in the BRICS
Countries
Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law
and Justice
Volume 102
SeriesEditors
MortimerSellers,UniversityofBaltimore,Baltimore,MD,USA
JamesMaxeiner,UniversityofBaltimore,Baltimore,MD,USA
EditorialBoard
MyroslavaAntonovych,Kyiv-MohylaAcademy,Kyiv,Ukraine
NadiadeAraújo,PontificalCatholicUniversityofRiodeJaneiro,RiodeJaneiro,
Brazil
JasnaBakšic-Muftic,UniversityofSarajevo,Sarajevo,BosniaandHerzegovina
DavidL.CareyMiller,UniversityofAberdeen,Aberdeen,UK
LoussiaP.MusseFélix,UniversityofBrasilia,FederalDistrict,Brazil
EmanuelGross,UniversityofHaifa,Haifa,Israel
JamesE.HickeyJr.,HofstraUniversity,SouthHempstead,NY,USA
JanKlabbers,UniversityofHelsinki,Helsinki,Finland
CláudiaLimaMarques,FederalUniversityofRioGrandedoSul,PortoAlegre,
Brazil
AnicetoMasferrer,UniversityofValencia,Valencia,Spain
EricMillard,WestParisUniversity,NanterreCedex,France
GabriëlA.Moens,CurtinUniversity,Perth,Australia
RaulC.Pangalangan,UniversityofthePhilippines,QuezonCity,Philippines
RicardoLeitePinto,LusíadaUniversityofLisbon,Lisboa,Portugal
MizanurRahman,UniversityofDhaka,Dhaka,Bangladesh
KeitaSato,ChuoUniversity,Tokyo,Japan
PoonamSaxena,UniversityofDelhi,NewDelhi,India
GerrySimpson,LondonSchoolofEconomics,London,UK
EduardSomers,UniversityofGhent,Gent,Belgium
XinqiangSun,ShandongUniversity,Shandong,China
TadeuszTomaszewski,WarsawUniversity,Warsaw,Poland
JaapdeZwaan,ErasmusUniversityRotterdam,Rotterdam,TheNetherlands
Ius Gentium is a book series which discusses the central questions of law and
justice from a comparative perspective. The books in this series collect the
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The Ius Gentium series provides a valuable resource for lawyers, judges,
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Salvatore Mancuso Mauro Bussani
Editors
The Principles of BRICS
Contract Law
A Comparative Study of General Principles
Governing International Commercial
Contracts in the BRICS Countries
Editors
SalvatoreMancuso MauroBussani
UniversityofPalermo UniversityofTrieste
Palermo,Italy Trieste,Italy
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Preface
InpresentingthisfirstvolumerelatedtothepreparationofthePrinciplesofBRICS
CommercialContracts,wewouldlikefirstofalltoexpressourdeepestappreciation
totheMembersoftheWorkingGroup,inparticulartotheRapporteursresponsible
forthepreparationofthenationalreports.Itwasonlyonaccountoftheextraordinary
effortsofallthosewhoparticipatedinthedifferentactivitiesoftheprojectthatthis
volumewasmadepossible.
AspecialwordofthanksgoestoProf.JacquesDuPlessis,whostartedwiththe
coordinationoftheprojectandhadtostepdownduetoothercommitments,securing
anywayhiscontinuingparticipationintheprojectasSouthAfricanRapporteur.
OurrecognitionalsogoestoProf.SaraRigazioforhercontributiontotheeditors
for the preparation of the present volume and for the editing work of the national
reports.
A further word of thanks goes also to Mrs. Phumelele Dhlamini and Dr. Marta
Bono,whoservedasSecretariestotheWorkingGroupandundertooktheimportant
taskofpreparingtheminutesofthetwomeetingsheldinCapeTownandPalermo.
Lastbutbynomeansleast,wewouldliketoexpressourdeepestappreciationto
theUniversitiesofCapeTownandPalermoforgenerouslyhostingthetwomeetings
oftheWorkingGroup.
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Contents
SettingtheScene
TheResearchProjectonthePrinciplesofBRICSCommercial
ContractsLaw.AnIntroduction .................................... 3
MauroBussaniandSalvatoreMancuso
CommercialContractLawintheBRICS:AComparativeOverview ... 13
MartaInfantino
QuestionsandAnswersintheFrameworkofNationalJurisdictions
TheQuestionnairefortheDraftingoftheNationalReports ........... 49
JacquesduPlessis
BrazilianReport .................................................. 69
UmbertoCelliJuniorandLígiaEspolaorVeronese
RussianReport .................................................... 135
AleksanderKomarov
IndianReport ..................................................... 187
NilimaBhadbhade
ChineseReport .................................................... 241
LihongZhang
SouthAfricanReport .............................................. 297
JacquesduPlessis
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OntheWaytothePrinciplesofBRICSCommercialContractsLaw
ThePossiblePathTowardsthePrinciplesofBRICSCommercial
ContractsLaw .................................................... 359
SalvatoreMancuso
FurtherReading .................................................. 427
Editors and Contributors
AbouttheEditors
SalvatoreMancusoisaProfessorofComparativeLawandLegalAnthropologyat
theUniversityofPalermo(Italy)andanHonoraryProfessorofAfricanLawatthe
CentreforAfricanLawsandSocietyofXiangtanUniversity(P.R.ofChina).Heis
alsoAdjunctProfessorattheLoyolaUniversityChicago,JohnFeliceRomeCenter,
andVisitingProfessorattheSomaliNationalUniversityinMogadishu(Somalia).He
holdsaPh.D.inComparativeLawattheUniversityofTrieste(Italy)withaspecial-
izationinAfricanlaw.HehasbeentheChair,CentreforComparativeLawinAfrica,
UniversityofCapeTown;ProfessorofComparativeLawandLegalAnthropology
attheUniversityofMacau;AdjunctProfessorattheUniversityofTrieste;Visiting
Professor at the Universities of Paris I—Panthéon Sorbonne, Limoges, Réunion,
and Lisbon; and has given lectures in different universities in Europe, Africa, and
China. He has published and edited some books and several articles on Compara-
tiveandAfricanLaw.SomeofhisworksonAfricanlawhavebeentranslatedinto
Chinese,French,andPortuguese.HeisamemberoftheInternationalAcademyof
Comparative Law and Vice President (Events) of the Juris Diversitas group. He is
co-coordinator of the TWG on Rule of Law & Justice Reform at the World Bank
GFLJD. He is a member of the editorial board of several law journals focused on
comparativelawandAfricanlaw.
MauroBussaniisaProfessorofComparativeLawattheUniversityofTrieste,Italy;
anAdjunctProfessorattheUniversityofMacao,S.A.R.ofthePeople’sRepublicof
China;andaMemberoftheFacultyoftheCatólicaGlobalSchoolofLaw(Portugal).
HereceivedaHonorisCausaPh.D.fromtheUniversityofFribourg(Switzerland).
HehasbeenVisitingProfessorintheUS,Canada,Brazil,France,Switzerland,the
UK,Portugal,Serbia,Hungary,Israel,andChina.HeisaMemberoftheAmerican
Law Institute and a Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative
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Law.Hesitsonthecouncilofanumberofscientificinstitutionsandacademiesandis
amemberoftheeditorialboardofmanyjournals,includingtheAmericanJournalof
ComparativeLaw,theJournalofEuropeanTortLaw,andtheJournalofComparative
LawinAfrica.Heauthoredorco-authored30booksandmorethan160essays,in
Italian,English,andFrench.ManyofhisworkshavebeentranslatedintoSpanish,
Portuguese,Turkish,Serbian,Chinese,Japanese,andKorean.
Contributors
BhadbhadeNilima PrivateConsultant,Pune,India
BussaniMauro UniversityofTrieste,Trieste,Italy;
UniversityofMacau,MacauSAR,People’sRepublicofChina
CelliJuniorUmberto UniversityofSãoPaulo,SãoPaulo,Brazil
duPlessisJacques UniversityofStellenbosch,Stellenbosch,SouthAfrica
InfantinoMarta UniversityofTrieste,Trieste,Italy
KomarovAleksander RussianAcademyofForeignTrade,Moscow,Russia
MancusoSalvatore UniversityofPalermo,Palermo,Italy
VeroneseLígiaEspolaor UniversityofSãoPaulo,SãoPaulo,Brazil
ZhangLihong East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai,
People’sRepublicofChina
