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The CMEA Uniform Law for International Sales (2d rev. ed.). By Iván Szász. Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers; Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1985. Pp. viii, 292. Index. Dfl.125; $50; £31.75.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

John O. Honnold*
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania Law School, Emeritus

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Book Reviews and Notes
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1988

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References

1 The CMEA was founded by Eastern European countries but now includes Albania, Cuba and Mongolia.

Szász’s initial study was published in 1974 in Hungarian and in 1976 in English as A Uniform Law on International Sale of Goods. For reviews, see Harmathy, , 19 Acta Juridicae Scientiarum Hungaricae 431 (1977)Google Scholar; Strohbach, , 26 Staat und Recht 651 (1977)Google Scholar; and Dutoit, , 7 Rev. Socialist L. 223 (1981)Google Scholar. The current version was reviewed by Hazard, J. in 14 Int’l J. Legal Info. 87 (1986)Google Scholar.

2 The mooted question of the freedom of enterprises in CMEA to modify the “General Conditions” is discussed at pp. 53–56.

3 Following Senate consent (98:0), the United States on Dec. 11, 1986, deposited its instrument of ratification of the 1980 Sales Convention. Other states that have accepted this Convention (by ratification, accession or comparable action) include Argentina, Austria, China, Egypt, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Lesotho, Mexico, Sweden, the Syrian Arab Republic, Yugoslavia and Zambia. See Honnold, , Book Review, 81 AJIL 540 (1987)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Honnold, J., Uniform Law for International Sales Under the 1980 United Nations Convention (1982)Google Scholar (text of the Convention at p. 469).

4 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, Apr. 11, 1980, UN Doc. A/CONF.97/18, reprinted in 19 ILM 671 (1980), Art. 94. Cf. Art. 90.