INTERNATIONAL SALES LAW

 

COURSE SYLLABUS

 

Spring 2007

 

 

The syllabus for this course has been selected to cover the following central themes of international sales contracting:

 

 

I) International sales transactions in general	IV) UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (UPICC)
II) Transnational commercial law (Lex mercatoria)	V) Principles of European Contract Law (PECL)
III) UN Convention on Contracts for the International  Sale of Goods (CISG)	VI) Dispute resolution

 

In addition, some Contracting standards will be used as a point of reference throughout the course

 

 

 

 

 

1) International Commercial Transactions, Second or third edition [i]

(Second edition 2000: pp. 1–163 and 191-193

Third edition 2004: 1-165 and 193-195)

by

Jan Ramberg

 

 

2) The New Law Merchant and the Global Market Place.  A 21st Century View of Transnational Commercial Law

by

Klaus Peter Berger

(2001) 

 

 *** landscape format printout necessary for these two articles ***

 

 

3) The Concept of the "Creeping Codification" of Transnational Commercial Law

by

Klaus Peter Berger

(2001)

 

 

4) The Vienna Sales Convention and the Lex Mercatoria [ii]

by

Bernard Audit

(1990/1998)

 

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5) Understanding CISG in Scandinavia. Second edition [iii]

(pp. 1-71) and 167–194)

by

Joseph Lookofsky

[2002]

 

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6) Alive and Well in Scandinavia: CISG Part II [iv]

by

Joseph Lookofsky

(1999)

 

 

 

7) UNIDROIT Principles 2004 – The New Edition of the Principles of International Commercial Contracts
adopted by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law

by

Michael Joachim Bonell

(2004)

 

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8) The UNIDROIT Principles and Transnational Law

by

Michael Joachim Bonell

(2000)

 

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9) The UNIDROIT Principles and CISG [v]

by

Michael Joachim Bonell

(1997)

 

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10) The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts and the Principles of European Contract Law:

Similar Rules for the Same Purposes? [vi]

by
Michael Joachim Bonell

(1996)

 

 

11) Some Features of the Law of Contract in the Third Millennium [vii]

by

Ole Lando

(2000)

 

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12) Leaving the Shadow for the Test of Practice - On the Future of the Principles of European Contract Law [viii]

by

Friedrich Blasé

(1999)

 

 

13) International Contracts: Jurisdiction under the EC Regulation [ix]

Lynne Skajaa

(2002)

 

14) Law and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration. Third edition.

Chapter 2: The Applicable Law [x]

Alan Redfern and Martin Hunter

(1999)

 

 

 

 

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 Total of study pages 548

+ conventions, codifications of contract principles and other material

 

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CONVENTIONS, CODIFICATIONS OF CONTRACT PRINCIPLES, AND OTHER MATERIAL

 

available in full text at

 

Lex Mercatoria

An (international / transnational) commercial law & e-commerce infrastructure monitor

www.lexmercatoria.org

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