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Unification And Community: A Rhetorical Analysis Of The United Nations Sales Convention Symposium: Reflections On The International Unfication Of Sales Law , Amy H. Kastely
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
In evaluating the constitutive nature of language and of particular texts, rhetorical analysis focuses attention on the nature of the community formed by a text, on its points of coherence and on its potential vulnerabilities. By emphasizing the importance of author, audience, language, and the occasions for discourse, rhetoric provides a way to explore the constitutive power of a text. When applied to the Sales Convention, rhetoric provides a useful analytic tool that allows one to understand theachievements of the Convention and to explore its weaknesses. This Article pursues such a rhetorical analysis of the Convention. Section II discusses the …
Commentary On Professor Kastely's Rhetorical Analysis Symposium: Reflections On The International Unfication Of Sales Law , Peter Winship
Commentary On Professor Kastely's Rhetorical Analysis Symposium: Reflections On The International Unfication Of Sales Law , Peter Winship
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
I am pleased to add Professor Kastely's Article1 to my growing collection of English-language commentaries on the Sales Convention. Many of the early commentaries are descriptive. They sketch the background and present status of the Convention and then provide a doctrinal gloss to all or part of the text. Recent commentaries are more diverse, and while the descriptive pieces continue, some of the recent literature probes the Convention text more deeply, frequently approaching it from new perspectives. Professor Kastely's rhetorical analysis of the Convention text clearly falls among these more provocative commentaries. I commend in particular her identification and discussion …