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.
Unit details and rules
Academic unit | Law |
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Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites
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None |
Corequisites
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None |
Prohibitions
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None |
Assumed knowledge
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undergraduate law degree |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | No |
Teaching staff
Coordinator | Jason Harris, jason.harris@sydney.edu.au |
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Lecturer(s) | Don Robertson, donald.robertson@sydney.edu.au |
Tutor(s) | Stafford Lumsden, stafford.lumsden@sydney.edu.au |