You have before you the Fall Issue of the NJCL, again covering quite a large chunk of the field of international commercial law. To start in a familiar corner, Thomas Neumann offers us a solid account of Article 80 and shared responsibility under the CISG. He concludes that the case law, the CISG and other international sales laws support a pro rata apportionment solution in cases of shared responsibility.
By contrast, Anu Lähteenmäki-Uutela, who defended her doctoral dissertation on November 21st this year, reveals the complex network of functional foods regulation in China. Regulation of the functional foods industries does not receive much public attention, until something goes wrong, like the Chinese baby milk scandal in 2008. Nonetheless, improving regulation and supervision of traditional medicines and other functional foods is a global concern, since the high demand for Chinese cures in the West makes for a profitable global market.
Gurwinder Singh analyzes another aspect of international trade; that is, how national subsidies affect it. Singh looks at the global system of free trade, and how the use of subsidies affects developing and developed nations and the system of international trade. He concludes that free trade is not necessarily fair trade however, the use of subsidies should be allowed only when it amounts to a high level of necessity. In other circumstances all nations benefit from free trade.
Lastly, Dionysis Flambouras presents a decade worth of CISG case law from Greece. During that time Greek courts have covered most of the central issues in the CISG, and for the most part reached conclusions consistent with international case law on the interpretation of the CISG.
Sincerely,
Katja Weckström
Editor-in-Chief
Nordic Journal of Commercial Law
Shared Responsibility under Article 80 CISG (Thomas Neumann)
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Chinese Law on Foods and Medicines (Anu Lähteenmäki-Uutela)
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The WTO Perspective on Subsidies in International Trade (Gurwinder Singh)
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