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LAWS6958: International Contract Law
2024 unit information
There are fundamental principles of contract law governing international commerce. These principles constitute international commercial contract law - an autonomous body of general principles governing contractual obligations, rather than national contract law on an international scale. This unit examines the concept of a new lex mercatoria as it is found in international commerce. The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts are taken as fundamental statement of principles of international commercial contract law. Other statements of general contract or sales law principles are referred to during the unit. This unit examines the search for unity and harmony in transnational commercial contract law. That search proceeds within an historical and institutional framework. We examine the structure of global commerce and the legal institutions relevant to sources of international private law (transnational law) as applied to international commercial contracts. Further information about this unit is available in the Sydney Law School timetable https://canvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/4533/pages/postgraduate-lecture-timetable, unit of study outline https://www.sydney.edu.au/units and academic staff profile https://www.sydney.edu.au/law/about/our-people/academic-staff.html
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Sydney Law School
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Law |
| Credit points | 6 |
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undergraduate law degree |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. identify the historical foundations of private international law and critically analyse how the international law regime is applied to contracting practices
- LO2. critically analyse the structure and describe the operation of the UNIDROIT Principles
- LO3. describe to an advanced level the set of contract rules outlined in the UNIDROIT Principles
- LO4. synthesise and apply principles of private international law, the international law regime, UNIDROIT Principles to specific international commercial settings
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