国际商事仲裁依职权适用商人法法律依据探析

Analysis on Legal Basis of Modern Lex Mercatoria’ Ex officio Application in International Commercial Arbitration

相较于国内法庭而言,现代商人法在国际商事仲裁中得到了更为广泛的适用,这依托于国际商事仲裁庭拥有较大实体法律选择职权的制度优势。随着国际商事仲裁实体法律选择依据由仲裁所在地法—仲裁冲突法—仲裁实体法的理论流变,仲裁员自由裁量权逐渐扩张使得现代商人法法律渊源的适用范围逐渐扩大。尤其现代国际商事仲裁制度中的仲裁法规则赋予仲裁员直接选择实体法律的权力,成为现代商人法适用的有力法律保障。而国际商事仲裁规则所特有适用'贸易惯例'和'公允及善良原则'的规定,则成为现代商人法在国际商事仲裁制度中更为灵活的适用路径。

Comparing to domestic courts,the modern lex mercatoria has been widely applied in international commercial arbitration,which is supported by the system advantage that the arbitral tribunal has more discretion in selection of substantive law.As the legal basis of substantive law selection in international commercial arbitration has changing from'arbitral forum'to'arbitral conflict of laws'and'arbitral substantive law',the extension of arbitrators’discretion makes for the scope of application expansion of lex mercatoria’legal sources.Especially the international commercial arbitration rules of modern arbitration system authorize arbitrator the power of directly selecting substantive law,which become a strong legal protection of modern lex mercatiora’application.And the unique international commercial arbitration rules of'trade usage'and'ex aequo et bono',become the more flexible application method of modern lex mercatoria in international commercial arbitration.