Maastricht European Private Law Blog

July 14, 2012
by Mark Kawakami
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It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s CISG 2.0?

On 10 July 2012, UN Information Services released a press release reporting about UN Commission on International Trade Law’s 45th annual session, which took place in New York from 25 June to 6 July 2012. While UNCITRAL finalized and adopted important … Continue reading

May 8, 2012
by Mark Kawakami
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The Harmonization of European Law: An Ignorant American’s Perspective

There is much emphasis in the European legal discourse about the importance of harmonization and whether it is attainable, sustainable, and/or desirable. The irony in all of this – at least from my rather uninformed, American perspective – is that … Continue reading