ABSTRACT
Efforts to unify international sales law began as early as the 1920s, with Ernst Rabel usually being accredited with making the first suggestion regarding a potential unification of the law relating to the international sale of goods. These initial attempts were ultimately followed by the Hague conventions on the sale of goods, ULIS and ULF, which were drafted at the Hague Conference in 1964. However, these conventions did not meet their expectation of creating a global unification of international sales law, as they were not ratified by many states. The Hague conventions were not without their importance, however, as they paved the way for the ‘new’ uniform sales law drawn up by UNCITRAL.
