Dr John Felemegas

Senior Lecturer

BA, LLB, LLM (Syd); PhD (Nott)

Academic Profile

Dr John Felemegas joined the Faculty in 2003, teaching principally in the areas of Equity and Trusts and International Sale of Goods.

A former student of the University of Sydney, he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Nottingham, England in 2000.  His research subject was 'the proper interpretation of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, 1980 (CISG)'. The CISG provides the uniform law for the international sale of goods and it is arguably the most significant piece of contract legislation at international level, having been adopted worldwide by States that account for more than two-thirds of total world trade.

Dr Felemegas is also a Fellow of the Institute of International Commercial Law at Pace University, New York and participates regularly as judge in the annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (Vienna and Hong Kong) organised by the Pace Institute. In 2006, he taught in an intensive Diploma course in International Commercial Arbitration, organized by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australian Branch); UNSW;  and ACICA (Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration).

John is a member of the 2003 NSW Attorney-General's Working Party to enquire into the law and practice relating to Conflicts of Interest in N.S.W.

Current Research Activities

International Sale of Goods; Compilation of CISG Case Law Digest. International collaborative research project at the Pace Institute, with the aim of producing a digest of case law on the CISG, in light of the exponential growth of case law in the various jurisdictions [2006 - 2008].

Uniform International Sales Law; Comparative analysis of counterpart provisions in the CISG, the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts and the Principles of European Contract Law [2003 - 2006]

Recent Publications

John Felemegas, ed., An International Approach to the Interpretation of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1980) as Uniform Sales Law, Cambridge University Press (2006)

"Comparison between provisions of the CISG regarding the right to require specific performance (Arts. 28, 46 and 62) and the counterpart provisions of the UNIDROIT Principles (Arts. 7.2.1 - 7.2.5)" Pace Law School Institute Internet Database (2005)

"Comparison between provisions of the CISG regarding time for payment (Art. 58) and the counterpart provisions of the PECL (Arts. 7:102 and 7:104)" Pace Law School Institute Internet Database (2005)

"Comparison between provisions of the CISG regarding late acceptance (Art. 21) and the counterpart provisions of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (Art. 2.9)" Pace Law School Institute Internet Database (2005)

ADDITIONAL Publications & Articles (PDF)