In an effort to reform the country’s laws, on 24 November 2015 the Vietnamese Congress passed a new Civil Code, Civil Code 2015, which took effect on 1 January 2017. The new article on the choice of law rules for contract, Article 683, included many significant improvements relating to the principle of party autonomy in international contracts. This paper analyses these developments in the light of EU law and the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts. The explicit recognition of the right of parties to choose the law applicable to their contracts, the widening of the scope of the chosen laws and the new provisions protecting weaker parties, among a number of other changes, have revealed how Vietnamese private international law is moving towards modern norms. Nevertheless, many aspects of the new rules could be improved. The paper therefore suggests potential detailed interpretations of the existing rules, such as the rules on formal validity of contracts and changing the applicable law. In addition, it recommends the codification of new conflict rules on the modality of choice and multiple choice of laws for a single contract.

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越南政党自治–民法典2015​​年国际合同法律选择新规则

为了改革国家法律，越南国会于2015年11月24日通过了新的民法典2015​​年，于2017年1月1日生效。关于合同法律选择规则的新条款第683条包括与国际合同中当事人自治原则有关的许多重大改进。本文根据欧盟法律和海牙国际商业合同法律选择原则对这些发展进行了分析。对当事方选择适用于其合同的法律的权利的明确承认，所选择法律的范围的扩大以及保护弱方的新规定等诸多其他变化，揭示了越南国际私法的发展趋势走向现代规范。不过，新规则的许多方面都可以改进。因此，本文提出了对现有规则的潜在详细解释，例如关于合同形式有效性和更改适用法律的规则。此外，它建议对有关单个合同的选择方式和法律选择方式的新冲突规则进行编纂。