Unification and Harmonization of Private Law in the Process of Broadcasting Legal-Cultural Information

The consistent development of unification and harmonization processes within the regulatory framework of cross-border private-law relations driven by transactional needs and intertwined with technological, sanction-related, migration, epidemiological, and other factors of contemporary legal (and more broadly, civilizational) transformations, as well as the shift in the globalization paradigm of international relations toward a model of global regionalism, necessitates a profound understanding of emerging meanings of the uniform or aspiring-to-uniform legal regulation thus created. The paper examines the factors, patterns, historical specificities, current trends, and prospects for the convergence of legal systems through the instruments of private law unification and harmonization from the perspective of memetics — a developing interdisciplinary field employed across various branches of scientific knowledge to explain various aspects of human cultural evolution. The analysis reveals that unification and harmonization of private law serve as key mechanisms for the cross-border selection of memes, facilitating the rapprochement of legal systems and achieving regulatory uniformity in private-law relations involving a foreign element at interstate and non-state, universal and regional levels. The author draws conclusions regarding the evolution of the forms, nature, and actors involved in the unification and harmonization of private law alongside the development of social relations.