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International B2b Contracts - Freedom Unchained?, Ingeborg Schwenzer, Claudio Marti Whitebread
International B2b Contracts - Freedom Unchained?, Ingeborg Schwenzer, Claudio Marti Whitebread
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs
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Exemptions Of Contract Liability Under The 1980 United Nations Convention, Wanki Lee
Exemptions Of Contract Liability Under The 1980 United Nations Convention, Wanki Lee
Penn State International Law Review
This article will primarily discuss the United Nations Sales Convention. In interpreting the Convention, the central problem is to what extent Article 79 of the Convention will apply to the various cases. Does it apply only to cases of "force majeure" or "impossibility," i.e., cases in which there is a barrier that prevents performance or makes it impracticable? Or does it apply to cases of "frustration" or "imprévision," i.e., cases in which there is no barrier but the circumstances are radically changed because of a contingency contrary to the basic assumption on which the contract was made? Even if Article …
Contract Formation Under The United Nations Convention On Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods And The Uniform Commercial Code, James Edward Joseph
Contract Formation Under The United Nations Convention On Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods And The Uniform Commercial Code, James Edward Joseph
Penn State International Law Review
The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods aspires to the role of a transcendent uniform law. In order to lend uniformity to international sales law, the Convention must reduce the necessity of resorting to domestic conflict rules to determine applicable law, and it must reduce forum shopping. The second section of this Comment is a brief history of the effort to unify international sales law. The third section is concerned with uniformity. The applicability of the Convention with regard to both forum shopping and reliance on domestic conflict rules will be discussed. Ratification procedures are …