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    COVID-19 and related public and private measures as an impediment to perform contracts governed by the CISG
    (Texas International Law Journal, 2021)
    he 1980 UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods ("CISG") contains a provision that governs the consequences of certain events that obstruct the agreed performance of the contract, with no specific reference to domestic law theories such as acts of God, force majeure, or hardship. Pertinently, Article 79 of the CISG relieves a party from paying damages only if the breach of contract was due to an unforeseeable impediment beyond its control.1 This paper addresses the application ofArticle 79 CISG to govern situations oflegal, economic, and factual impediments resulting from COVID- 19 or the public and private measures undertaken to control its spread in society. It also provides some guidelines to determine the existence of COVID-19 related impediments under the purview of Article 79 CISG. It sets out examples of COVID-19 measures implemented by governments and businesses and the common contractual breaches resulting from such measures as well as their legal consequences. The objective of this paper is to promote uniformity in the CISG application and the observance of good faith in international trade pursuant to Article 7 ClSG.
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    Sports organizations’ duty to protect athletes’ dignity: a universal human rights analysis to comply with the prohibition of non-accidental violence in sports regulations
    (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2025-07-19) ;
    Zatarain, Bernardo
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    Modern sports organizations, like the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique and the Fédération Internationale de la Football Association, prohibit different forms of non-accidental violence, including sexual harassment, sexual abuse, physical abuse, psychological abuse, and neglect. This prohibition relates to a sports organization’s modern duty to protect human rights and dignity during all activities. In practice, however, it is often difficult to determine when a sports organization member’s acts or conduct crosses the line of intrinsic sporting demands to become harassment, physical or psychological abuse, or neglect towards another member. Sports law literature is scarce on this issue. The authors provide a contemporaneous answer to this question revisiting the meaning of human dignity and its relation to the right of freedom from degrading treatment. The authors offer a test to answer the question ¿when an act or conduct reaches the standard of non-accidental violence in the professional sports context? They also apply their proposed test to real-life scenarios of potential non-accidental violence in sports.
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    Unconscious Bias in Arbitration: Case Law and the Path to Fairness
    (Kluwer Law International BV, 2025-08-01) ;
    José Covarrubias Miranda
    This article examines the impact of unconscious bias in arbitration and, in particular, in arbitrators’ challenges. Through the analysis of recent case law – including the Swiss Sun Yang Case (2020), the ICC Court Monologue Challenge (2023), the English Expert Case (2024) and the French Obituary Case (2023) – it highlights how unconscious bias can shape decision-making, procedural conduct and perceptions of fairness in arbitration. Arbitrators often deny partiality, yet their conduct – such as dismissiveness, unequal favour, or culturally charged remarks – can create reasonable doubts about lack of impartiality and independence, regardless of intent or awareness. While not all instances of unconscious bias warrant disqualification as an arbitrator, this article argues that unconscious bias can be properly addressed through current standards for independence and impartiality in key instruments such as the IBA Guidelines on conflict of interests in international arbitration. Finally, it advocates for bias-mitigation training and diversity to preserve arbitration’s legitimacy.
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    Software technology in CISG contracts
    (Oxford University Press (United Kingdom), 2019)
    Software technology has changed the way businesses operate and the items traded globally. These advances demand a fast and adequate evolution of the law. This paper supports the view that the CISG is equipped with the rules needed to address recent changes in software technology; it demonstrates how the general legal principles, upon which the CISG is based, may serve to achieve a proper interpretation and supplementation of this uniform sales law. The author submits, for instance, that a dynamic notion of goods, which includes software, can be revealed by considering the parties’ main obligations under the Convention. In addition, he advocates for a modern understanding of CISG terms in order to apply the rules on contract formation to new realities. Finally, he highlights some performance issues that may arise in the sale of software, including specific methods of examination, and of giving notice of any lack of conformity.
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    Shanghai Lianfu Food Co. Ltd v CSM N. V.—Dispute Arising from a Sale of Goods Contract
    (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2022)
    The Plaintiff, Shanghai Lianfu Food Co. Ltd., signed the Mynthon Toll Manufacturing Agreement (“the Agreement”) with CSM N.V., the Defendant, on 7 Jan 2002. The Agreement provided that the Plaintiff should supply candies to fulfil the contract between Leaf East Asia Pte. Ltd. (Leaf East, a subsidiary of Defendant) and Dandy Distribution (“Dandy”). The Agreement further provided that, in case the orders from Dandy provided by Defendant were less than 135 tons in 2002, or less than 150 in the upcoming years, the Defendant was entitled to require the Plaintiff to supply goods to buyers other than Dandy to match the difference between the actual amount and target amount. If the gap could not be filled, then the Defendant should compensate the Plaintiff the difference between the net selling price and the direct cost of production for the goods not ordered (packaging, raw materials and direct labour costs). © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2022.
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    El renacimiento del derecho de daños en México. Un análisis comparativo
    (Tirant lo Blanch, 2019) ;
    Rodolfo Vazquez Cabello
    Esta obra brinda un recuento moderno del derecho de la responsabilidad civil extracontractual en México. Los autores abordan los elementos que dan lugar a dicha responsabilidad, los tipos de daños accionables y sus formas de indemnización, disuasión o penalización desde la perspectiva de la doctrina y de la jurisprudencia comparada. La incorporación de los daños punitivos en México es analizada a partir del método funcional del derecho comparado y la teoría de los trasplantes legales. Los autores proponen nuevas formas deentender y mejorar la implementación de esta figura novedosa desde la perspectiva del derecho de torts en el common law y en otras tradiciones jurídicas mixtas.
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    Sustainability in Global Supply Chains Under the CISG
    (2021)
    Ingeborg Schwenzer
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    In this article, the authors assert that the United Nations Convention for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) can contribute to tackling gaps in statutory legislation and defective business conduct that have been associated with unsustainable trade in Global Supply Chains (GSCs). The authors provide evidence that the CISG contains rules enabling a general legal framework for establishing uniform sustainable standards for goods concerning suppliers, sellers and buyers located in different countries. For instance, the CISG provisions on contract formation ease the incorporation of joint codes of conduct for sustainable trade in GSCs. In addition, the contracting parties’ circumstances and current trade usages are now more relevant to determine what constitutes conformity of the goods under the contract and the default warranties in Article 35 CISG. On the level of remedies, the authors show that best-efforts provisions, possibly included in a code of conduct or inferred from standards applicable to the goods, may redefine the notion of impediment in Article 79 CISG, which could lead to exoneration of liability for the seller. They also demonstrate why fundamental breach and the calculation of damages are at the centre of the discussion regarding the remedies for breach of an obligation to deliver sustainable goods.
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