The Proposed Common European Sales Law as a Case Study

Speaker:Prof. Dean James Devenney, LL.B (Hons.) Ph.D PG Cert. LTHE FHEA, Professor of Commercial Law and Head of Exeter Law School

Host: A.P Chen Ruoying, PKULS

Time:10:00-12:00, Nov2 (Monday), 2015

Venue: Room 307, Koguan Building, Peking University Law School

Introduction of Speaker:

Professor Devenney has been a member of a working group on the Secured Transactions Law Reform Project (under the chairmanship of Lord Saville and the directorship of Professor Sir Roy Goode QC); a member of a three- year research project on the European Common Frame of Reference with the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford and Humboldt Universität, Germany (funded by the AHRC and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft); and a member of a Common Core of European Law (Trento) Project on Contractual Remedies.

His work has been cited by the High Court of Singapore (see Chwee Kin Keong v. Digilandmall.com [2004] SGHC 71), the High Court of England and Wales (see Parabola Investments Ltd v. Browallia Cal Ltd [2009] EWHC 901 (Comm) at [130]) and the English Law Commission (see Law Commission of England and Wales: Ninth Programme of Reform (Law Com No 293), para 4.18). He has provided assistance to the Law Commission on Consumer Law, misrepresentation and unfair commercial practices; and more recently was invited to discuss the proposal for the codification of Australian Contract Law with the Australian Attorney-General’s Department, and to discuss another harmonisation project with the Singapore Ministry of Law.

Translated by: Wang Houqiang

Edited by: Xia Jing