Legal Research Quarterly

Legal Research Quarterly

Do Contracts Receive a Corona? Exemption from International Contractual Liability in the Corona Age from the Perspective of the Convention on the International Sale of Goods (Vienna 1980)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Hossein Kaviar 1
Mohamad Hossein Taghipour 2
1 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Arak University, Arak, Iran Corresponding Author Email: h-kaviar@araku.ac.ir
2 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law & Political Sciences, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran.
10.29252/jlr.2022.224222.2022
Abstract
Coronavirus, as an acute respiratory syndrome, was detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China with an epidemic in humans. This virus soon spread throughout the world and is now the biggest crisis in the universe. The crown virus is now the king of the world and has extremely hampered global trade by restricting economic activity and disrupting production and supply chains. The basic principle of contract law is that the parties are committed to the promises made. However, events such as Corona affect the performance of the parties of the contract. Despite the unprecedented effects of the virus on the global economy, it has revived two classic concepts of international Sale: Force majeure and hardship. This article analyzes the extent of exemption from international liability in the Corona era from the perspective of the Convention on the International Sale of Goods and the Judicial procedure of the Convention.
Keywords
Corona
Convention on the International Sale of Goods
Article 79 of the Convention
Force majeure
hardship
Subjects

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  • Receive Date 25 October 2021
  • Revise Date 02 March 2022
  • Accept Date 06 March 2022