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1 Introduction

From: Global Sales and Contract Law

Ingeborg Schwenzer, Pascal Hachem, Christopher Kee

Content type:
Book content
Product:
International Commercial Law [ICML]
Published in print:
26 January 2012
ISBN:
9780199572984

From: Oxford Legal Research Library (http://olrl.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2021. All Rights Reserved.date: 24 January 2021

Subject(s):
Performance of contract — Agent's duties and liabilities
1.01 Almost 50 years have passed since the invaluable books on sales law written by the comparativist Ernst Rabel were published. Rabel’s work was the starting point for harmonization and unification of, at that time, irreconcilably contradicting national sales laws. However, since then the world has seen the diverging application and varying interpretations of uniform laws such as the 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) on the one hand, and national preconceptions of certain legal concepts and terms on the other....
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