2026-09-03 15:29:12

This year marks the 30^th anniversary of the concept of the Creeping Codification of transnational law. This idea provides the theoretical underpinning for the TransLex-Principles. The German treatise "Formalisierte oder 'Schleichende' Kodifizierung des transnationalen Wirtschaftsrechts" was published by Professor Berger in 1996. The book was later also published in English in two editions with Wolters Kluwer ("The Creeping Codification of the New Lex Mercatoria", 1999 and 2010). In their Annexes, these books contained comprehensive and ever-growing lists of principles and rules of transnational commercial law. These lists form the basis of the TransLex-Pinciples in their current form.

2026-09-01 17:40:41

Two important new developments for our users:

a) the TransLex Team has collected new comparative law materials (mostly arbitral awards) for the TransLex-Principles which will be uploaded until the end of the year;

b) we are in the process of developing an AI tool. The semantic search through the new TransLex-AI will make the knowledge contained in TransLex faster, more accessible and easier to connect.

2024-10-09 10:13:39

Two new Principles have been added to the new Section X. on maritime transport law, one on adjustment of general average (X.2) and another one on marine salvage (X.3).