International Commercial Transactions

This course is designed to acquaint students with the basic concepts, principles, and rules of international sales, sales financing paper-based and electronic and payments, and transportation.  It discusses the principle sources of international commercial transactions law (treaties, compilations of customary rules such as Incoterms) and the Uniform Customs and Practices for Documentary Credits, some of the key transportation conventions and basic principles presently being drafted on e-commerce in the Americas.