| Summary: | The 1980 United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods, concluded
under the auspices of UNCITRAL, creates a comprehensive statutory legal framework
for international sales. Through the express incorporation of the principle of freedom of
contract, the convention contains rules which the parties may freely adapt to the
particular circumstances of their transaction, by filling any gaps that may arise with trade
usages and other practices. In addition, the convention recognises the binding force of
international trade usages in certain circumstances, in that it binds parties to usages
which are so widely known and have acquired such regularity of observance in
international trade as to justify an expectation that they will be observed in the particular
transaction. Such acknowledgment of the changing patterns and norms of behaviour
which characterise international trade law allows the CISG to be categorised as a major
component of the modern lex mercatoria. === Constitutional International & Indigenous Law === LL.M.
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