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Based on the research of case law related to the application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, this article analyses what was held by a court of first instance, a court of appeals and the Supreme Court of Chile, in the case Industrias Magromer Cueros y Pieles S.A. v. Sociedad Agricola Sacor Limitada, the first one discussed by Chilean Courts regarding the possible application of the abovementioned Convention. It studies the arguments and conclusions reached by the Chilean courts concerning the possible tacit exclusion of the Convention whenever it has not been claimed in the lawsuit, as well as the possibility to directly claim compensation for damages caused by breach of contract. It is shown that the Convention on the International Sale of Goods was, in fact, the applicable law for the contract subject of dispute, despite the fact that it was not called upon in the suit. Moreover, fully applying it, the plaintiff had the right to directly ask for compensation for breach, with no need to claim neither for specific performance nor for the resolution of the contract. This paper based on a comparative study of foreign case law in application of the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper leads the attention to both the need and convenience of implementing international criminal law in the Chilean legal order. To this end it delivers, in a first part, an overview of crimes against international law, followed by both juridical and policy arguments to be considered in the discussion about implementation. Among the legal arguments it develops certain pre-existent obligations of the Chilean State and the general need that appears in civil law countries to implement international criminal provisions in their internal legal order to make them applicable following the mandate to fully describe though a law both the criminal behaviours and their punishment. A third part is dedicated to the different forms of implementation existent to date in different States, both relating how to implement and where to implement. This part seeks to give the reader some guidance on the different options available in this respect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]