International Sales Law (5cr)
Code: ONEVAL0002V24-3002
General information
- Enrollment
- 12.08.2025 - 29.11.2025
- Registration for the implementation has begun.
- Timing
- 06.10.2025 - 31.10.2025
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Teaching languages
- english
- Seats
- 1 - 150
- Degree programmes
- Law
- Teachers
- Soili Nysten-Haarala
- Course
- ONEVAL0002V24
Evaluation scale
H-5
Objective
Student understands the interplay between statutory default rules such as the CISG and contracting standards regulating international sales . Student will learn the general knowledge of international sales contract planning and drafting.
Execution methods
Lectures, team and seminar work (16hours) and a written home exam.
Accomplishment methods
Active participation in the seminar work and a home exam.
Assessment: 80 % home exam and 20 % seminar work.
The questions of the home exam will be delivered in moodle, when the seminar has been held.
Content
- The UN Convention on International Sales of Goods (CISG)
- Application of the CISG in international sales contracting
- Application of international contracting standards for sale of goods
Materials
1. Lookofsky, J. Understnding the CISG (Worldwide edition) 2017 9788757434255 (This book is a brief introduction, which works as basic background knowledge) 2. Insitute of International Commericial Law https://iicl.law.pace.edu/cisg/cisg (contains the text of the CISG in several languages, background materials, cases etc.) 3. More materials will be delivered during the course Convention on the International Sale f Goods (CISG) see above Kauppalaki/ Finnish Sale of Goods Act 27.3.1987/35 will be delivered during the course
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
1-5
Qualifications
Law of obligations or a contract law course recommended, but not necessary.