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The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is an international treaty providing a uniform international sale law for buyers and sellers of goods with places of business in different Contracting States. As we've seen in Part 2 of the series, the application of...
The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is an international treaty providing a uniform international sale law for buyers and sellers of goods with places of business in different Contracting States. The practical effect of the CISG is that, for example, if you are a business located in Texas and engaged...
The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is an international treaty providing a uniform international sale law for buyers and sellers of goods with places of business in different Contracting States. The CISG will also apply if only one party to the transaction is located in a Contracting State, if the terms of the contract, or operation of applicable "conflicts of laws" provisions, specifies that the Contracting State's laws will govern the transaction. The CISG was initially adopted by 11 countries in 1988, including...
After years of discussion, debate and delay, the United Kingdom's Bribery Act 2010, which has been described as the toughest anti-corruption legislation in the world, will finally become law effective July 1, 2011. Although the Act covers the crime of bribery broadly, the most important provisions of the Act from the point of view of international businesses are those dealing with bribery of a foreign public official...