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Harry M. Flechtner

Professor of Law

Harry M. Flechtner, a four-time winner of the Law School's Excellence-in-Teaching Award, publishes in the areas of international and domestic commercial law, including sales law, general contract law, and bankruptcy. He is co-author of the casebook, Sales, Leases and Electronic Commerce: Problems and Materials on National and International Sales (West Publishing), now in its second edition, and a general editor of Drafting Contracts under the CISG (Harry M. Flechtner, Ronald A. Brand and Mark S. Walter, eds., Oxford University Press, 2008) and of The Draft UNCITRAL Digest and Beyond: Cases, Analysis and Unresolved Issues in the U.N. Sales Convention (Franco Ferrari, Harry Flechtner and Ronald A. Brand, eds., Sellier European Law Publishers, 2004), as well as the author of many chapters and articles on commercial law subjects.   He also writes and performs songs on commercial law topics (see "links").

Professor Flechtner is one of two National Correspondents for the United States at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, and has been cited by the Solicitor General of the United States as "one of the leading academic authorities on the [United Nations Sales] Convention." He serves as faculty adviser to the Journal of Law and Commerce, published by Pitt law students, and he speaks frequently on commercial law at symposia, workshops, and continuing legal education programs.

Education

  • JD, Harvard Law School
  • MA, Harvard University
  • AB, Harvard University

    • Links

  • The CISG Song
  • The "Mootie Blues"

    • Selected Publications

    Books:

    • Service Contracts in the United States (and from an Economic Perspective): A Comparative View of the DCFR’s Service Contract Provisions and Their Application to Hawkins v. McGee, in RECHTSVERGLEICHUNG UND RECHTSVEREINHEITLICHUNG, Mohr Siebeck Publishers, 2010.
    • Globalization of Law as Documented in the Law on International Sales of Goods, in NIEUW INTERNATIONAAL PRIVAATRECHT: MEER EUROPEES, MEER GLOBAAL, Erauw, J., Taelman, P.; eds., No. 35, pp. 541-560, Kluwer 2009. On SSRN.
    • Issues Relating to the Applicability of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-07, UNIFORM LAW FOR INTERNATIONAL SALES UNDER THE 1980 UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION, John Honnold, 4th edition, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, Forthcoming
    • Issues Relating to Exemption ('Force Majeure') Under Article 79 of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods ('CISG') U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-08, UNIFORM LAW FOR INTERNATIONAL SALES UNDER THE 1980 UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION, John Honnold, 4th edition, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, Forthcoming
    • Drafting Contracts under the CISG (Harry M. Flechtner, Ronald A. Brand and Mark S. Walter, editors, Oxford University Press, 2008.)
    • The Draft UNCITRAL Digest and Beyond: Cases, Analysis and Unresolved Issues in the U.N. Sales Convention (Franco Ferrari, Harry Flechtner and Ronald A. Brand editors, Sellier European Law Publishers 2004).
    • John E. Murray & Harry M. Flechtner, Sales, Leases and Electronic Commerce: Problems and Materials on National and International Transactions (West Group 2d 2003).

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