SALE OF GOODS, UNIFORM LAWS

Abstract

This chapter presents survey results and other aspects of sale of goods and uniform laws. There are two possible methods of unifying the law of international sales. The first is to unify the rules of conflict of laws. The second is to unify the substantive law regulating international sales in various legal systems, either by transforming an international convention into national law, or by establishing model laws that the contract States to a convention then transform into national law. The aim of the unification of substantive law is to eliminate from the area of international sales law the problems and uncertainties of conflict of laws rules, and to spare the parties to the sales contract the trouble of having to apply an unfamiliar legal system to their disputes. The courts of all contract States are to apply the Uniform Sales Law directly to all sales contracts that represent an international sale in the sense of the Uniform Sales Law.