6 Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations 1980 (Rome Convention)

1. What it is: the European choice-of-law convention (the Rome I predecessor): the law applicable to contractual obligations — the parties' choice of law freedom (party autonomy's conflict-of-laws face), and absent choice, the most closely connected law (the characteristic-performance test); 2. The rules' map: the chosen law's scope (validity, interpretation, performance, discharge); the mandatory-rules-and-public-policy limits (the forum's protective law unrebutted by choice); 3. Nepal's position: not a party (the Convention's EU-family) — but its principles instruct: Nepal's own conflict rules (the General Code's foreign-law provisions; the courts' contract- conflicts practice) and the lesson for the international transactions of Nepali parties (the choice-of-law-and-forum clauses' drafting — PIL-I's private-international-law frame, Semester 3); 4. The modern successor: Rome I Regulation (2008) and the global trend (the Hague Principles on Choice of Law — the teaching line).