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International Sales Law
This authoritative collection presents carefully selected scholarly articles that describe and examine the principles of international sales law, as set forth in the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). These seminal pieces reflect various viewpoints of authors from different countries and legal systems, and offer a range of distinct methodological approaches to legal analysis. Together with an original introduction by the editors, these volumes provide the reader with both an international and an interdisciplinary perspective on the CISG and its application.
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This authoritative collection presents carefully selected scholarly articles that describe and examine the principles of international sales law, as set forth in the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). These seminal pieces reflect various viewpoints of authors from different countries and legal systems, and offer a range of distinct methodological approaches to legal analysis. Together with an original introduction by the editors, these volumes provide the reader with both an international and an interdisciplinary perspective on the CISG and its application.
Critical Acclaim
‘Taking a complete and accurate approach to the subject, this collection provides an exhaustive picture of the law relating to the international import/export contracts applicable to world trade. Adopting a comparative stance, these volumes give the reader a comprehensive understanding of the worldwide legal approach toward the CISG, and provide a valuable guide to the understanding of both the application and the interpretation of that law, thus being a must-read not only for students, but also for practitioners and researchers studying and working in the field of international sales law’
– Francesco Cortesi, Judge, Italian Supreme Court
– Francesco Cortesi, Judge, Italian Supreme Court
Contributors
41 articles, dating from 1979 to 2015
Contributors include: G.F. Bell, M. Bridge, F. Ferrari, C. Gillette, S. Kröll, J. Lookofsky, U. Magnus, P. Schlechtriem, L. Spagnolo, M. Torsello
Contributors include: G.F. Bell, M. Bridge, F. Ferrari, C. Gillette, S. Kröll, J. Lookofsky, U. Magnus, P. Schlechtriem, L. Spagnolo, M. Torsello
Contents
Contents:
Foreword Symeon C. Symeonides
Introduction Franco Ferrari and Clayton P. Gillette
PART I INTRODUCTION: THE CISG AND THE UNIFICATION OF LAW
1. Clayton P. Gillette and Robert E. Scott (2005), ‘The Political Economy of International Sales Law’, International Review of Law and Economics, 25 (3), September, 446–86
2. Peter H. Schlechtriem (2008), ’25 Years of the CISG: An International Lingua Franca for Drafting Uniform Laws, Legal Principles, Domestic Legislation and Transnational Contracts’, in Harry M. Flechtner, Ronald A. Brand and Mark S. Walter (eds), Drafting Contracts Under the CISG, Part III, Chapter 7, New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press, 167–87
3. James E. Bailey (1999), ‘Facing the Truth: Seeing the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods as an Obstacle to a Uniform Law of International Sales’, Cornell International Law Journal, 32 (2), February, 273–317
PART II SPHERE OF APPLICATION: WHEN DOES THE CISG APPLY
4. Franco Ferrari (2012–2013), ‘PIL and CISG: Friends or Foes?’, Journal of Law and Commerce, 31, 45–107
5. Joseph Lookofsky (2011), ‘Not Running Wild with the CISG’, Journal of Law and Commerce, 29 (2), Spring, 141–169
6. Lisa Spagnolo (2011), ‘Iura Novit Curia and the CISG: Resolution of the Faux Procedural Black Hole’, in Ingeborg Schwenzer and Lisa Spagnolo (eds), Towards Uniformity: The 2nd Annual MAA Schlechtriem CISG Conference: International Commerce and Arbitration, The Hague, the Netherlands: Eleven International Publishing, 181–221
PART III ISSUES EXCLUDED FROM THE CISG
7. Patrick C. Leyens (2005), ‘CISG and Mistake: Uniform Law vs. Domestic Law: The Interpretative Challenge of Mistake and the Validity Loophole’, in Pace International Law Review (ed.), Review of the Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods (CISG) 2003–2004, Part I, Munich, Germany: Sellier European Law Publishers, 3–51
8. Franco Ferrari (2007), ‘The Interaction between the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and Domestic Remedies (Rescission for Mistake and Remedies in Tort Law)’, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, 71 (1), January, 52–80
9. Ulrich G. Schroeter (2013), ‘Defining the Borders of Uniform International Contract Law: The CISG and Remedies for Innocent, Negligent, or Fraudulent Misrepresentation’, Villanova Law Review, 58 (4), 553–87
10. Henry Mather (2001), ‘Choice of Law for International Sales Issues Not Resolved by the CISG’, Journal of Law and Commerce, 20, Spring, 155–208
PART IV GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND INTERPRETATION
11. Ulrich Magnus (1997), ‘General Principles of UN-Sales Law’, International Trade and Business Law Review, 3, 33–56
12. Franco Ferrari (1994), ‘Uniform Interpretation of the 1980 Uniform Sales Law’, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, 24 (2), 183–228
13. Harry M. Flechtner (1998), ‘The Several Texts of the CISG in a Decentralized System: Observations on Translations, Reservations and Other Challenges to the Uniformity Principle in Article 7 (1)’, Journal of Law and Commerce, 17, 187–217
14. Steven D. Walt (2015), ‘The Modest Role of Good Faith in Uniform Sales Law’, Boston University International Law Journal, 33 (1), Spring, 37–73
15. Lisa Spagnolo (2007), ‘Opening Pandora’s Box: Good Faith and Precontractual Liability in the CISG’, Temple International and Comparative Law Journal, 21 (2), Fall, 261–310
16. Gary F. Bell (2008), ‘Uniformity through Persuasive International Authorities – Does Stare Decisis really Hinder the Uniform Interpretation of the CISG?’, in Camilla B. Andersen and Ulrich G. Schroeter (eds), Sharing International Commercial Law across National Boundaries: Festschrift for Albert H. Kritzer on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday, London, UK: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, 35–47
PART V TRADE USAGES AND OTHER SOURCES OF LAW
17. Clayton P. Gillette (1999), ‘Harmony and Stasis in Trade Usages for International Sales’, Virginia Journal of International Law, 39, Spring, 707–41
18. Franco Ferrari (2005), ‘What Sources of Law for Contracts for the International Sale of Goods? Why One has to Look Beyond the CISG’, International Review of Law and Economics: Conference on Commercial Law Theory and the Convention on the International Sale Of Goods (CISG), 25 (3), September, 314–41
19. Leonardo Graffi (2011), ‘Remarks on Trade Usages and Business Practices in International Sales Law’, Annals of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade – Belgrade Law Review, LIX (3), 102–23
Volume II
Contents:
Introduction An introduction by the editors appears in Volume I
PART I FORM, FORMATION AND PRE-CONTRACTUAL LIABILITY
1. Gyula Eörsi (1979), ‘Problems of Unifying Law on the Formation of Contracts for the International Sale of Goods’, American Journal of Comparative Law, 27 (2–3), 311–23
2. Giulio Giannini (2006), ‘The Formation of the Contract in the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods: A Comparative Analysis’, Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, 2006 (1), 1–30
3. del Pilar Perales Viscasillas (1997), ‘Contract Conclusion under CISG’, Journal of Law and Commerce, 16 (2), Spring, 315–44
PART II OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES
4. René Franz Henschel (2004), ‘Conformity of Goods in International Sales Governed by CISG Article 35: Caveat Venditor, Caveat Emptor and Contract Law as Background Law and as a Competing Set of Rules’, Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, 2004 (1), 1–21
5. Volker Behr (2008), ‘Dealing with Non-Conformity – A Transaction Test Analysis of CISG Regulations on Examination and Notice Under Articles 38 Through 44’, in Harry M. Flechtner, Ronald A. Brand and Mark S. Walter (eds), Drafting Contracts Under the CISG, Part VII, Chapter 18, New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press, 429–58
6. Stefan Kröll (2011), ‘The Burden of Proof for the Non-Conformity of Goods under Art. 35 CISG’, Annals of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade –Belgrade Law Review, LIX (3), 162–80
7. Harry M. Flechtner (2008), ‘Funky Mussels, a Stolen Car, and Decrepit Used Shoes: Non-Conforming Goods and Notice thereof under the United Nations Sales Convention (“CISG”)’, Boston University International Law Journal, 26 (1), Spring, 1–28
PART III RISK OF LOSS
8. Johan Erauw (2005–06), ‘CISG Articles 66–70: The Risk of Loss and Passing It’, Journal of Law and Commerce, 25, 203–17
9. Michael Bridge (2008), ‘The Transfer of Risk under the UN Sales Convention 1980 (CISG)’, in Camilla B. Andersen and Ulrich G. Schroeter (eds), Sharing International Commercial Law across National Boundaries: Festschrift for Albert H. Kritzer on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday, London, UK: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, 77–105
PART IV EXEMPTION
10. Rodrigo Momberg Uribe (2011), ‘Change of Circumstances in International Instruments of Contract Law. The Approach of the CISG, PICC, PECL and DCFR’, Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration, 15 (2), 233–66
11. Joseph M. Lookofsky (1983), ‘Fault and No-Fault in Danish, American and International Sales Law. The Reception of the 1980 United Nations Sales Convention’, Scandinavian Studies in Law, 27, 107, 109–38
PART V BREACH OF CONTRACT
12. Maartje Bijl (2009), ‘Fundamental Breach in Documentary Sales Contracts: The Doctrine of Strict Compliance and the Underlying Sales Contract’, European Journal of Commercial Contract Law, 1 (1), January, 19–28
13. Mercédeh Azeredo da Silveira (2005), ‘Anticipatory Breach under the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods’, Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, 2005 (2), 1–51
14. Bruno Zeller (2007), ‘The Remedy of Fundamental Breach and the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) – A Principle Lacking Certainty?’, Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration, 11 (2), 219–36
PART VI REMEDIES
15. Djakhongir Saidov (2009), ‘The Present State of Damages under the CISG: A Critical Assessment’, Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration (Conference in Honor of Peter Schlechtriem), 13 (1), February, 197–216
16. Peter Huber (2007), ‘CISG – The Structure of Remedies’, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, 71, 13–34
17. Steven Walt (1991), ‘For Specific Performance Under the United Nations Sales Convention’, Texas International Law Journal, 26, 211–51
18. Avery W. Katz (2005), ‘Remedies for Breach of Contract under the CISG’, International Review of Law and Economics: Conference on Commercial Law Theory and the Convention on the International Sale Of Goods (CISG), 25 (3), September, 378–96
19. Marco Torsello (2005), ‘Remedies for Breach of Contract under the 1980 Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)’, in Franco Ferrari (ed.), Quo Vadis CISG? Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, Part I, Chapter 3, Munich, Germany: Sellier European Law Publishers, 43–87
20. John Y. Gotanda (2009), ‘When Recessions Create Windfalls: The Problems of Using Domestic Law to Fix Interest Rates under Article 78 CISG’, Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration (Conference in Honor of Peter Schlechtriem), 13 (1), February, 229–40
PART VII FINAL PROVISIONS
21. Ulrich G. Schroeter (2008), ‘Backbone or Backyard of the Convention? The CISG’s Final Provisions’, in Camilla B. Andersen and Ulrich G. Schroeter (eds), Sharing International Commercial Law across National Boundaries: Festschrift for Albert H. Kritzer on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday, London, UK: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, 425–469
22. Marco Torsello (2000), ‘Reservations to International Uniform Commercial Law Conventions’, Uniform Law Review, 5 (1), January, 85–120
Index
Foreword Symeon C. Symeonides
Introduction Franco Ferrari and Clayton P. Gillette
PART I INTRODUCTION: THE CISG AND THE UNIFICATION OF LAW
1. Clayton P. Gillette and Robert E. Scott (2005), ‘The Political Economy of International Sales Law’, International Review of Law and Economics, 25 (3), September, 446–86
2. Peter H. Schlechtriem (2008), ’25 Years of the CISG: An International Lingua Franca for Drafting Uniform Laws, Legal Principles, Domestic Legislation and Transnational Contracts’, in Harry M. Flechtner, Ronald A. Brand and Mark S. Walter (eds), Drafting Contracts Under the CISG, Part III, Chapter 7, New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press, 167–87
3. James E. Bailey (1999), ‘Facing the Truth: Seeing the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods as an Obstacle to a Uniform Law of International Sales’, Cornell International Law Journal, 32 (2), February, 273–317
PART II SPHERE OF APPLICATION: WHEN DOES THE CISG APPLY
4. Franco Ferrari (2012–2013), ‘PIL and CISG: Friends or Foes?’, Journal of Law and Commerce, 31, 45–107
5. Joseph Lookofsky (2011), ‘Not Running Wild with the CISG’, Journal of Law and Commerce, 29 (2), Spring, 141–169
6. Lisa Spagnolo (2011), ‘Iura Novit Curia and the CISG: Resolution of the Faux Procedural Black Hole’, in Ingeborg Schwenzer and Lisa Spagnolo (eds), Towards Uniformity: The 2nd Annual MAA Schlechtriem CISG Conference: International Commerce and Arbitration, The Hague, the Netherlands: Eleven International Publishing, 181–221
PART III ISSUES EXCLUDED FROM THE CISG
7. Patrick C. Leyens (2005), ‘CISG and Mistake: Uniform Law vs. Domestic Law: The Interpretative Challenge of Mistake and the Validity Loophole’, in Pace International Law Review (ed.), Review of the Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods (CISG) 2003–2004, Part I, Munich, Germany: Sellier European Law Publishers, 3–51
8. Franco Ferrari (2007), ‘The Interaction between the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and Domestic Remedies (Rescission for Mistake and Remedies in Tort Law)’, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, 71 (1), January, 52–80
9. Ulrich G. Schroeter (2013), ‘Defining the Borders of Uniform International Contract Law: The CISG and Remedies for Innocent, Negligent, or Fraudulent Misrepresentation’, Villanova Law Review, 58 (4), 553–87
10. Henry Mather (2001), ‘Choice of Law for International Sales Issues Not Resolved by the CISG’, Journal of Law and Commerce, 20, Spring, 155–208
PART IV GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND INTERPRETATION
11. Ulrich Magnus (1997), ‘General Principles of UN-Sales Law’, International Trade and Business Law Review, 3, 33–56
12. Franco Ferrari (1994), ‘Uniform Interpretation of the 1980 Uniform Sales Law’, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, 24 (2), 183–228
13. Harry M. Flechtner (1998), ‘The Several Texts of the CISG in a Decentralized System: Observations on Translations, Reservations and Other Challenges to the Uniformity Principle in Article 7 (1)’, Journal of Law and Commerce, 17, 187–217
14. Steven D. Walt (2015), ‘The Modest Role of Good Faith in Uniform Sales Law’, Boston University International Law Journal, 33 (1), Spring, 37–73
15. Lisa Spagnolo (2007), ‘Opening Pandora’s Box: Good Faith and Precontractual Liability in the CISG’, Temple International and Comparative Law Journal, 21 (2), Fall, 261–310
16. Gary F. Bell (2008), ‘Uniformity through Persuasive International Authorities – Does Stare Decisis really Hinder the Uniform Interpretation of the CISG?’, in Camilla B. Andersen and Ulrich G. Schroeter (eds), Sharing International Commercial Law across National Boundaries: Festschrift for Albert H. Kritzer on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday, London, UK: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, 35–47
PART V TRADE USAGES AND OTHER SOURCES OF LAW
17. Clayton P. Gillette (1999), ‘Harmony and Stasis in Trade Usages for International Sales’, Virginia Journal of International Law, 39, Spring, 707–41
18. Franco Ferrari (2005), ‘What Sources of Law for Contracts for the International Sale of Goods? Why One has to Look Beyond the CISG’, International Review of Law and Economics: Conference on Commercial Law Theory and the Convention on the International Sale Of Goods (CISG), 25 (3), September, 314–41
19. Leonardo Graffi (2011), ‘Remarks on Trade Usages and Business Practices in International Sales Law’, Annals of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade – Belgrade Law Review, LIX (3), 102–23
Volume II
Contents:
Introduction An introduction by the editors appears in Volume I
PART I FORM, FORMATION AND PRE-CONTRACTUAL LIABILITY
1. Gyula Eörsi (1979), ‘Problems of Unifying Law on the Formation of Contracts for the International Sale of Goods’, American Journal of Comparative Law, 27 (2–3), 311–23
2. Giulio Giannini (2006), ‘The Formation of the Contract in the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods: A Comparative Analysis’, Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, 2006 (1), 1–30
3. del Pilar Perales Viscasillas (1997), ‘Contract Conclusion under CISG’, Journal of Law and Commerce, 16 (2), Spring, 315–44
PART II OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES
4. René Franz Henschel (2004), ‘Conformity of Goods in International Sales Governed by CISG Article 35: Caveat Venditor, Caveat Emptor and Contract Law as Background Law and as a Competing Set of Rules’, Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, 2004 (1), 1–21
5. Volker Behr (2008), ‘Dealing with Non-Conformity – A Transaction Test Analysis of CISG Regulations on Examination and Notice Under Articles 38 Through 44’, in Harry M. Flechtner, Ronald A. Brand and Mark S. Walter (eds), Drafting Contracts Under the CISG, Part VII, Chapter 18, New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press, 429–58
6. Stefan Kröll (2011), ‘The Burden of Proof for the Non-Conformity of Goods under Art. 35 CISG’, Annals of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade –Belgrade Law Review, LIX (3), 162–80
7. Harry M. Flechtner (2008), ‘Funky Mussels, a Stolen Car, and Decrepit Used Shoes: Non-Conforming Goods and Notice thereof under the United Nations Sales Convention (“CISG”)’, Boston University International Law Journal, 26 (1), Spring, 1–28
PART III RISK OF LOSS
8. Johan Erauw (2005–06), ‘CISG Articles 66–70: The Risk of Loss and Passing It’, Journal of Law and Commerce, 25, 203–17
9. Michael Bridge (2008), ‘The Transfer of Risk under the UN Sales Convention 1980 (CISG)’, in Camilla B. Andersen and Ulrich G. Schroeter (eds), Sharing International Commercial Law across National Boundaries: Festschrift for Albert H. Kritzer on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday, London, UK: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, 77–105
PART IV EXEMPTION
10. Rodrigo Momberg Uribe (2011), ‘Change of Circumstances in International Instruments of Contract Law. The Approach of the CISG, PICC, PECL and DCFR’, Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration, 15 (2), 233–66
11. Joseph M. Lookofsky (1983), ‘Fault and No-Fault in Danish, American and International Sales Law. The Reception of the 1980 United Nations Sales Convention’, Scandinavian Studies in Law, 27, 107, 109–38
PART V BREACH OF CONTRACT
12. Maartje Bijl (2009), ‘Fundamental Breach in Documentary Sales Contracts: The Doctrine of Strict Compliance and the Underlying Sales Contract’, European Journal of Commercial Contract Law, 1 (1), January, 19–28
13. Mercédeh Azeredo da Silveira (2005), ‘Anticipatory Breach under the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods’, Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, 2005 (2), 1–51
14. Bruno Zeller (2007), ‘The Remedy of Fundamental Breach and the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) – A Principle Lacking Certainty?’, Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration, 11 (2), 219–36
PART VI REMEDIES
15. Djakhongir Saidov (2009), ‘The Present State of Damages under the CISG: A Critical Assessment’, Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration (Conference in Honor of Peter Schlechtriem), 13 (1), February, 197–216
16. Peter Huber (2007), ‘CISG – The Structure of Remedies’, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, 71, 13–34
17. Steven Walt (1991), ‘For Specific Performance Under the United Nations Sales Convention’, Texas International Law Journal, 26, 211–51
18. Avery W. Katz (2005), ‘Remedies for Breach of Contract under the CISG’, International Review of Law and Economics: Conference on Commercial Law Theory and the Convention on the International Sale Of Goods (CISG), 25 (3), September, 378–96
19. Marco Torsello (2005), ‘Remedies for Breach of Contract under the 1980 Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)’, in Franco Ferrari (ed.), Quo Vadis CISG? Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, Part I, Chapter 3, Munich, Germany: Sellier European Law Publishers, 43–87
20. John Y. Gotanda (2009), ‘When Recessions Create Windfalls: The Problems of Using Domestic Law to Fix Interest Rates under Article 78 CISG’, Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration (Conference in Honor of Peter Schlechtriem), 13 (1), February, 229–40
PART VII FINAL PROVISIONS
21. Ulrich G. Schroeter (2008), ‘Backbone or Backyard of the Convention? The CISG’s Final Provisions’, in Camilla B. Andersen and Ulrich G. Schroeter (eds), Sharing International Commercial Law across National Boundaries: Festschrift for Albert H. Kritzer on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday, London, UK: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, 425–469
22. Marco Torsello (2000), ‘Reservations to International Uniform Commercial Law Conventions’, Uniform Law Review, 5 (1), January, 85–120
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