The Applicable Law to the Contract of Mandate

Today’s commercial and economic life has a character that transcends the borders of the countries. Knowledge and expertise gain importance in this economic structure. Therefore, in many fields such as consultancy, banking, medical sector, education, law, architecture, which require expertise, the contract of mandate has a wide application area. The fact that the contract of mandate manifests itself in many cases together with the power of representation or, in a more precisely, requires the power of representation raises the question of which regulations will be subject to the contract status and which law to be applied to the power of representation. In this respect, the grey areas, which are directly related to the authority of representation, should be considered as a whole and subject to the law applicable to the power of representation. In addition, the law to be applied to contract of mandate shall be determined by the determination of the general “contract status”, in other words “the law applicable to contractual obligations”. It should be remembered that the most important point in all these evaluations is the problem of qualification