Senior Lecturer
Bac. Jur. (Copenhagen), Cand.Jur. (Copenhagen), PhD ( Aarhus School of Business)
Email : camilla.b.andersen@le.ac.uk
Telephone: 0116 252 2456

Camilla initially did her law degree (a Danish Cand. Jur.) at University of Copenhagen in her native Denmark, where she went on to become a research/teaching fellow until relocating to England. Before joining the faculty at Leicester in 2005, Camilla was Lecturer in Commercial Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London , and part time lecturer for the School of Oriental and African Studies , in Comparative Commercial Law and International Trade Law. She also teaches the International Trade Law section on the Lord Chancellors Training Scheme for Chinese Lawyers for the British Council. She has worked with the CISG Advisory Council, and has been appointed National Reporter for the UK at the Intermediate Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law (Mexico 2008) and at the XVIIIth International Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law (Washington 2010).

Here at Leicester, she is part of the undergraduate Commercial Law team, and convenes and lectures on the LLB module. At postgraduate level she is the Director of the LLM, and teaches International Sales, Financing of International Sales, plus the newly introduced International Commercial Arbitration Moot I and II courses based on the Willem C Vis Commercial Arbitration Moot (where she won best Memorandum for Claimant and Best Individual Oralist in 1997 during her student years in Copenhagen). She was honoured with the ‘Post Graduate Teacher of the Year’ award in 2008, 2010 and 2011, and also supervises numerous PhD students in International Sales, Arbitration and other international commercial law areas.

Camilla was founding co-editor of The Journal of Comparative Law where she now holds an Associate Editorship, and she serves as assistant editor of the award-winning CISG Database at the Institute of International Commercial Law at Pace University School of Law, where she is also a Fellow. She has been involved in the editing work of numerous journals, and is external examiner for several universities. She has been visiting lecturer at Victoria University in Australia, in Turku University in Finland and a visiting scholar at University of Florida in the US.

Research Interests

International commercial law, particularly its harmonisation and the 1980 UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG); and comparative law.

Selected Publications

• 2012 [forthcoming]: “How fares the “Noble Month”? An analysis of recent German cases on the timeframe for notification under Art 39 CISG” in Journal of Law and Commerce 2012 Spring Edition.
• 2011: Theory and Practice of Harmonisation (with Mads Andenas), Edward Elgar Publishing [ISBN-13 978 1 84980 001 3]
• 2010: A Practitioner's Guide to the CISG, Transnational Juris (with Francesco Mazzotta, & Bruno Zeller) [ISBN-13 978-1-933833-37-8]
• 2009: “The Global Jurisconsultorium of the CISG Revisited” in The Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration – Special Edition in Honour of Peter Schlechtriem (2009) 13 VJ (1) 43-70.
• 2009: “Macro-Systematic Interpretation: Interplay between the CISG and Other Uniform Law Sources" in Janssen/Meyer (eds.) Methodology of the CISG, Sellier European Law Publishers GmbH.
• 2008: “General Principles of the CISG” in Andersen, C B and Schroeter, U G (eds) Sharing International Commercial Law across National Boundaries, Wildy, Simmons & Hill March 2008, p. 13-34
• 2007: Uniform Application of the International Sales Law: Understanding Uniformity, the Global Jurisconsultorium and Examination and Notification Provisions of the CISG, Kluwer March 2007 [ISBN 978 90 411 2616 0]
• 2007: "The Duty to Examine Goods under the Uniform International Sales Law - An Analysis of Article 38 CISG", in European Business Law Review 18-4, p. 797-814
• 2007: “Defining Uniformity in Law” in Uniform Law Review 2007:1, p. 5-55
• 1998: “Reasonable Time in the CISG”, in 1998 Review of the CISG, Kluwer, p. xx-xx (awarded the prestigious “Schmithoff Essay Competition” prize in 1997 by John Honnold)

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