International Commercial Law from a Nordic and Baltic Perspective: Status and Current Challenges

On 18 September 2014 the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and the department of law at Aarhus University hosted a joint conference to take stock of the recent changes in the field of international commercial law in the Nordic and Baltic region. The r...

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Main Author: Thomas Neumann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Aalborg University Open Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:Nordic Journal of Commercial Law
Online Access:https://somaesthetics.aau.dk/index.php/NJCL/article/view/2842
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description On 18 September 2014 the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and the department of law at Aarhus University hosted a joint conference to take stock of the recent changes in the field of international commercial law in the Nordic and Baltic region. The region had long been a place of numerous reservations against the full and unrestricted application of the 1980 UN Sales Convention (CISG). When Finland decided to withdraw one of its reservations in the spring of 2012, a change in the legal framework for international commercial businesses was a fact. The withdrawal by Finland was followed by withdrawals by Sweden, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway. Hence, the need to reconsider the legal framework surrounding international business was born. This is a summary report of the conference held at Aarhus University on Thursday the 18th of September 2014 covering various commercial law aspects relating to globalisation, the role of the CISG, legal traditions, uniformity in text and application, formation of contracts, battle of forms, form requirements, validity issues, withdrawal of reservations, contract drafting and visualisation, and INCOTERMS. The full Audiovisual Conference Book is available online at CISGNordic.net.
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spelling doaj.art-231aa1de1a43439b9ee0154e62c93f872024-04-02T13:00:26ZengAalborg University Open PublishingNordic Journal of Commercial Law1459-96862014-01-012International Commercial Law from a Nordic and Baltic Perspective: Status and Current ChallengesThomas NeumannOn 18 September 2014 the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and the department of law at Aarhus University hosted a joint conference to take stock of the recent changes in the field of international commercial law in the Nordic and Baltic region. The region had long been a place of numerous reservations against the full and unrestricted application of the 1980 UN Sales Convention (CISG). When Finland decided to withdraw one of its reservations in the spring of 2012, a change in the legal framework for international commercial businesses was a fact. The withdrawal by Finland was followed by withdrawals by Sweden, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway. Hence, the need to reconsider the legal framework surrounding international business was born. This is a summary report of the conference held at Aarhus University on Thursday the 18th of September 2014 covering various commercial law aspects relating to globalisation, the role of the CISG, legal traditions, uniformity in text and application, formation of contracts, battle of forms, form requirements, validity issues, withdrawal of reservations, contract drafting and visualisation, and INCOTERMS. The full Audiovisual Conference Book is available online at CISGNordic.net.https://somaesthetics.aau.dk/index.php/NJCL/article/view/2842
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