Question

1. Role of Professor Clive Schmitthoff in developing International trade law.
2. Harmonization of International Trade Law and its developement from lex mercatoria, customs, and usages to International conventions, rules, and laws and the role of International organizations in international trade law
3. Lex mercatoria.

Instructions

Attempt all above questions

Answer should be in your own language and length of each answer should be minimum 2 pages.

submission date 29-06-2020

Answer 1

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Clive Maximilian Schmitthoff (24 March 1903 – 30 September 1990) was an Anglo-German legal scholar.He served as Gresham Professor of Law in London from 1976 to 1986, and is known for his contributions to trade law.

Born as Maximilian Schmulewitz in Berlin, to Anna and Hermann Schmulewitz (who later adopted the name Schmitthoff), he obtained his doctorate in law under supervision of Martin Wolff at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1927. Being Jewish, he emigrated to the United Kingdom following the Machtergreifung in 1933. He joined the British army in 1940, and adopted the name Clive Macmillan to disguise his origins in case he was captured.

Schmitthoff received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1978

Schmitthoff's Export Trade has occupied a unique position in the bibliography available to commercial lawyers during this period and for many years was the only work on English law devoted to International Trade. It is still the only work which seeks to give a comprehensive view of English law and of transnational rules recognised by English law relating to the export trade.

The layout of the text is subjected to relatively few basic changes from several past editions. Approximately the first 30% of the text is devoted to a general consideration of international sales and includes, as well as basic concepts of offer and acceptance, problems of performance, frustration and conflicts, a review of the well trodden paths of standard trade...