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Abstract
The legal aspects of international contracts for the sale of goods are intrinsically complex. First, the negotiation and performance of international contracts must frequently be conducted at a dis- tance and with the assistance of many intermediaries. The rights and obligations of parties to an international sale are usually more manifold than those of a purely domestic sales transaction, and the effect and scope of these international rights and obliga- tions must be determined by sophisticated mercantile rules which are not present in all legal systems. Second, because an interna- tional sales transaction extends beyond the boundaries of one country, it is invariably affected by several legal systems which contain disparate rules for the determination of the rights and obligations of the parties. When the rules of the respective legal systems are mutually inconsistent, uncertainty and confusion is created that reaches beyond the particular sales transaction and affects the general harmony of international trade.'
Recommended Citation
Books Received,
17 Vanderbilt Law Review
557
(1984)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vjtl/vol17/iss2/8