Students and Their Research

 

Current Graduate Students

Peter Mazzacano

PhD Candidate and Adjunct Professor

Status: In Residence
Email: pmazzacano@osgoode.yorku.ca
Office: 309 Osgoode Hall Law School
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Dissertation

Exemptions for the Nonperformance of Contractual Obligations in International Sales Law, CISG Article 79, and the Quest for Uniformity

Fields of Research

  • International Commercial Law

 

Supervisory Committee

  • Prof. Janet Walker (Supervisor)

 

Education

  • LLM     Osgoode
  • MBA    Phoenix
  • ALM     Harvard
  • BA        Toronto

 

Appointments and Fellowships

  • Instructor, International Business Law, Ryerson University
  • Co-Coach, '07 and '08 Osgoode Vis Moot Team
  • Arbitrator, 2007 Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot
  • Editor, CISG Canada at http://www.cisg.ca

 

Select Publications

  • “Canadian Jurisprudence and the Uniform Application of the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods” in Pace Review of the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) 2005-2006, (Munich: Sellier European Law Publishers, 2006) 85, and First Place Winner in the Clive M. Schmitthoff Essay Competition, Pace University School of Law  (US$5,000 prize).
  • “Brown & Root Services v. Aerotech Herman Nelson: the Continuing Plight of the U.N. Sales Convention in Canada,” in Pace Review of the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) 2004-2005, (Munich: Sellier European Law Publishers, 2006) 169.
  • “The Problem of Inclusion, Developing Countries, and Global Trade” (2004) 5 Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 147.