Есть ли право в слове «БРИКС»? О юридических гегемонах, «ароматах» права и арбитражной революции

Закон. 2025. № 12. С. 40–53.

Galperin M.

The author of this article attempts to answer the question: are hopes justified that BRICS will become the „assembly centre“ of a new global legal system that will gain dominance, displacing the Anglo American law? What is Russia’s role in this process? In search of an answer, the author analyses the current concept of legal hegemony developed by the renowned Italian legal scholar Ugo Mattei, the experience of legal harmonisation in the post-Soviet space, and the practice of international business. Ultimately, the disappointing conclusion is reached: there are no real preconditions for BRICS law as a whole or any of its jurisdictions to become legal hegemons in the foreseeable future, displacing the United Kingdom and its former dominions and colonies (including the United States). However, through evolutionary processes, English contract law itself, for example, through independent interpretation by international commercial arbitrators, an increasing number of whom come from the Global South, can be imbued with new meanings, internationalised, and removed from the national British context.

Keywords: сравнительное правоведение, international arbitration, международный арбитраж, law and economics, право и экономика, comparative law, competition of legal systems, конкуренция правовых систем