Association of American Law Schools 2001 Annual Meeting Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - Saturday, January 6, 2001 San Francisco, California

You are here:   2001 Annual Meeting >> Workshops >> Workshop on Shifting Boundaries >> Workshop Materials >> Contracts/Sales Annual Meeting Workshop on Shifting Boundaries: Globalization and Its Discontents Discussion Issues: Concurrent Session on Contracts/Sales Joseph M. Perillo, Fordham University School of Law 1. Why should we look to the contract law of other nations and to the contract law of international agreements? a. Perspectives on our own law? b. Prepare students for the globalized practice of law? 2. Is a comparative approach more appropriate in works of scholarship than in the classroom. 3. Is there classroom time for the coverage of international or foreign approaches? 4. If so, how much time? 5. What, if any, international or foreign materials should we utilize? a. CISG? b. UNIDROIT? c. Cases or other materials from non-common-law jurisdictions? (E.g., culling from comparative law course books).