Abstract

Carlos Pizarro Wilson Working on the Principles of Latin American Contract Law (PLACL) has been a real challenge, and rightfully so. It has been a complex and rocky process, and it is not yet finished. I am confident that this conference will prove a source of enrichment that will enable us to perfect the PLACL. I therefore invite you to be critical, so as to create a better set of Principles for the Latin American region. The project originated in Brittany, in the French city of Rennes. It was the brainchild of a group of Latin American professors, most of whom had studied in France, under the wing of Professor Christian Larroumet. At the Rennes conference, we discussed the state of South American contract law as compared to that of contract law in France. At that time, in October 2009, Professor Michel Grimaldi was just beginning his work on the...