Unidroit principles on digital assets: between commercial law and private international law

This article analyzes the recent principles on digital assets that have been developed under the auspices of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law, UNIDROIT (2023). The objective of the UNIDROIT Principles on Digital Assets is to provide both national and international relations with soft law standards that can facilitate transactions in digital assets, particularly if States decide to introduce laws into their legal systems that are consistent with the UNIDROIT Principles. Given that academics from different legal cultures have collaborated in the project that gave rise to the UNIDROIT Principles, as well as experts from different international organizations as observers, a study of the legal content of the UNIDROIT Principles is highly relevant.