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The United Nations Convention For The International Sale Of Goods (Cisg) And Related Issues Of Conflict Of Laws, Francesco Pifferi Jan 1998

The United Nations Convention For The International Sale Of Goods (Cisg) And Related Issues Of Conflict Of Laws, Francesco Pifferi

LLM Theses and Essays

This paper addresses a need for legal predictability in international sale of goods. The author explores the twin purposes of the CISG to provide uniform substantive rules for international sale contracts and to solve conflict of laws problems through a uniform choice of law principle. The paper explores the regime of conflict of law rules in the CISG in comparison with the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to the Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, EC Rome Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations, and the Inter-American Convention on the Law Applicable to International Contracts. The scope …


The Interpretation Of The Remedial Provisions Of The Cisg, Evelina Wilhelmina Innocentia Visser Jan 1998

The Interpretation Of The Remedial Provisions Of The Cisg, Evelina Wilhelmina Innocentia Visser

LLM Theses and Essays

The drafting process of the most successful international uniform law of the last decades, the 1980 United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) reflected that in order to become a set of "well-balanced subsidiary rules," international uniform must be drafted and implemented carefully. It is essential that an international uniform law is adapted to diverse cultures. The different needs and demands of the varied socio-economic systems and legal structures, perceptions, procedures, and cultures of the distinct legal systems of this world are a main and omnipresent consideration and must be capable of absorbing the unified law. Either …