Kansainväliset
sopimukset
Luento 3
Case 3
Matti Rudanko
Lecture 3: Slides
Slide sets: 2;
5; 6, 7
(Formation of
contract; sales
contract;
choice of law)
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Case : Conclusion of Contract, Entire Agreemement
Task:
1. English
and Nordic Contract Systems: Entire Agreement
2. International Dimension: Choice of Law
3. Disclosure Duties upon Conclusion of Contract
4. Definition of Conforming Goods
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Other Material and Further Reading
Unidroit Principles 2.1.17 (Merger clauses)
Ramberg, Jan: International Commercial Transactions (ICC, Kluwer, Norstedts 1998)
p. 18 and 88 (see Slide set 7)
Cf. Exam textbook: McKendrick, Ewan : Contract Law (9th edition, Palgrave
Macmillan) 21.2: entire obligations
Please make use of your knowledge of IB, Finance, Logistics, and other business
economic or legal know how
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Possible Tasks and Questions
1. Choice of law questions: British or Finnish
2. The definition of conforming goods in international and Finnish sale of goods law
3. Account for the main differences between the English and Finnish law approach to
“entire agreements” (merger clauses). Observe the possibility of interpretation of the
contract (Unidroit Principles 2.1.17) and adjustment of contract (Contracts Act Art. 36)
4. Report the legal remedies available to a party to the contract for con-conformity of
the goods
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Topics and Issues
The Structure of
Sale of Goods
Contract
• British and Finnish
contract law
• Entire agreement
• Interpretation of
contract
• Contract law
principles
• Adjustment of
contracts
Contract Law
Regulation
• Sale of Goods Act
(national)
• CISG
• Unidroit Principles
• British Law?
• International
private law (choice
of law)
Non-conforming
Goods
• Definition of
conforming goods
• Entire agreement
• Information given
by the seller in
marketing
• Remedy
alternatives
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