Professor Michael Bridge, NAB 6.21

LLM. This course together with its related full course LL4E5, is capped at 30 students. Students must apply through Graduate Course Choice on LSEforYou.

The course concerns sales conducted on the basis of the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods 1980 (CISG). Seventy-two countries accounting together for two-thirds of the world's export trade, have so far adopted the CISG, which has generated an enormous primary and secondary literature, a great part of which is available on the internet. It has been incorporated as domestic law in Israel and Norway and has also very largely informed the Chinese Contract Law of 1999. The CISG is a most important piece of legislation in the continuing development of international contract law. It has been influential in the development of European sales law (the Directive on the Sale of Consumer Goods and Associated Guarantees) and of the Common Frame of Reference. The experience of the CISG brings out all of the issues arising from attempts to create uniform, transnational private law. Attention will also be given to the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts (2nd ed 2004) so far as they may be used to supplement the CISG.

(This course complements LL4G6 International Commodity Sales. The two half-courses are taken as LL4E5 International Sale of Goods.)

Ten x 2 hour seminars or lectures (depending upon class size) in MT.

Where the student does not opt to write a dissertation in the subject, there will be at least one x 2,000 word written assignment.

M Bridge, The International Sale of Goods (Oxford, 2nd ed 2007); J Fawcett, J Harris and M Bridge, International Sale of Goods in the Conflict of Laws (Oxford 2005); C Bianca and M Bonell, Commentary on the International Sales Law (Giuffre, 1987); P Schlechtriem and I Schwenzer, Commentary on the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) (Oxford, 3rd ed 2010); J Honnold, Documentary History of the Uniform Law for International Sales (Kluwer, 1989); J Honnold, Uniform Law for International Sales (Kluwer, 4th ed 2009); P Huber and A Mullis, The CISG (2007). Plus a substantial list of articles and cases.

Two-hour unseen examination in the Summer Term (100%). Note that students taking this course and LL4G6 International Commodity Sales (H) will sit one 3-hour exam in the ST: LL4E5 International Sale of Goods.