The Qatar Financial Center (QFC) decided to adopt a set of Contract Regulations that are effectively the equivalent of its contracts statute. The QFC does not have a civil code. The Regulations are largely predicated on the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC). Even so, its drafters introduced, in addition, elements peculiar to the common law of contracts that are not found in the PICC, and the QFC Court, which is largely composed of a common law-inclined bench, has made it clear in many of its cases that common law judgments and English statutes can and will serve as authority in the interpretation of the Contract Regulations. The situation is further complicated by the fact that the Regulations are meant to apply in a broader legal system (that of Qatar), which recognizes several elements of Islamic law in the context of public policy—although generally Islamic law plays a very minor role, if at all, in the ordinary Qatari law of contracts. Despite the complexity underlying the Contract Regulations, its relevant success—to date—is firmly premised on the fact that the process of legal transplantation was not undertaken in a vacuum, but, rather, it is a ‘living instrument’ that is acceptable and, above all, useful to its stakeholders. Much like other contract law-related legal transplants taking root in other special economic zones, so too the QFC Contract Regulations represent an excellent paradigm as to how wholesale legal transplants can be undertaken.

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将统法协会合同原则移植到卡塔尔金融中心：批发法律移植的新范式？

卡塔尔金融中心 (QFC) 决定采用一套实际上等同于其合同法规的合同条例。QFC 没有民法典。该条例主要基于统法协会国际商业合同原则 (PICC)。即便如此，其起草者还引入了人保法庭没有的合同普通法特有的要素，而主要由普通法倾向的法官组成的QFC法院在许多案件中都明确了这一点。普通法判决和英国法规可以并且将作为解释合同条例的权威。由于该条例旨在适用于更广泛的法律体系（卡塔尔的法律体系），因此情况变得更加复杂，它在公共政策的背景下承认伊斯兰法的几个要素——尽管一般来说，伊斯兰法在卡塔尔的普通合同法中扮演着非常小的角色，如果有的话。尽管《合同条例》具有复杂性，但其相关的成功——迄今为止——是基于这样一个事实，即法律移植的过程不是在真空中进行的，而是一种可以接受的“活的工具”，并且，最重要的是，对利益相关者有用。就像其他与合同法相关的法律移植在其他经济特区扎根一样，QFC 合同条例也代表了如何进行批发法律移植的绝佳范例。尽管《合同条例》具有复杂性，但其相关的成功——迄今为止——是基于这样一个事实，即法律移植的过程不是在真空中进行的，而是一种可以接受的“活的工具”，并且，最重要的是，对利益相关者有用。就像其他与合同法相关的法律移植在其他经济特区扎根一样，QFC 合同条例也代表了如何进行批发法律移植的绝佳范例。尽管《合同条例》具有复杂性，但其相关的成功——迄今为止——坚定地基于这样一个事实，即法律移植的过程不是在真空中进行的，而是一种可以接受的“活的工具”，并且，最重要的是，对利益相关者有用。就像其他与合同法相关的法律移植在其他经济特区扎根一样，QFC 合同条例也代表了如何进行批发法律移植的优秀范例。