Standards Affecting the Conformity of the Goods: Professor provides expert opinion

Djakhongir Saidov, Professor of Commercial Law in The Dickson Poon School of Law, has recently taken part in an international conference and Advisory Council meetings on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

The CISG, adopted in 1980, provides a modern, uniform and fair regime for contracts for the international sale of goods and contributes significantly to introducing certainty in commercial exchanges and decreasing transaction costs. It is a major international commercial law instrument that governs many international sales contracts around the world, having generated a substantial body of case law, has influenced law reform in many countries and legal thinking on sales and contract law.

Professor Saidov (left) at the CISG as a Model for Harmonisation, Convergence and Law Reform conference in Singapore

On 6-7 January 2017, the CISG as a Model for Harmonisation, Convergence and Law Reform conference took place in Singapore. It was organised by the National University of Singapore (NUS) and its Centre for Law & Business. Professor Saidov presented a paper on Cases on the CISG Decided in China: Conformity of Goods and Damages, which examined the impact of cases on the CISG, decided in China, on the development of the international sales law in the areas of conformity of goods and damages for breach of contract. 

Find out more about the conference The CISG as a Model for Harmonisation, Convergence and Law Reform 

On 8-10 January 2017, Professor Saidov took part in the meetings of the CISG Advisory Council (CISG-AC), an authoritative private body with an observer status in the United Nations Committee on the International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). The CISG-AC comprises leading commerical law scholars from around the world and aims to promote a uniform interpretation of the CISG. Professor Saidov, a Rapporteur to the CISG-AC, presented a draft opinion to the CISG-AC on Standards Affecting the Conformity of the Goods. 

You can find out more about Professor Saidov and his research on his profile page. 

Find out about the CISG-AC and its schedule of work