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The Draft UNCITRAL Digest and Beyond: Cases, Analysis and Unresolved Issues in the U.N. Sales Convention, will be one of the most useful single volumes available on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). It will include the full text of the draft UNCITRAL Digest which catalogues the cases and arbitral awards to date that have interpreted and applied the CISG on an article by article basis. The Digest and Beyond, it will also include commentary by eminent CISG scholars that addresses issues not yet considered in the cases. With more than 1,000 decisions applying the CISG in courts and arbitral tribunals around the world, the UNCITRAL Secretariat charged five CISG experts from a variety of regions with the task of creating a digest of CISG case law. The five experts chosen to prepare case reviews for the UNCITRAL Digest, and the CISG articles their portions of the Digest will cover, are: Franco Ferrari, Verona University, Italy (Articles 1-13, 78) Peter Winship, Southern Methodist University (Articles 14-24, 66-77) Ulrich Magnus, University of Hamburg, Germany (Articles 25-34, 45-52) Harry Flechtner, University of Pittsburgh (Articles 35-44, 79-88) Claude Witz, University of the Saarland, Germany (Articles 53-65) The appearance of the UNCITRAL Digest (likely to occur sometime in 2004) is expected to revolutionize the understanding and practice of international sales law. It will, however, only catalogue the existing cases and their interpretations of the CISG. It will not contain critical analysis of the decisions, or coverage of important issues not yet covered in the reported decisions. The Draft UNCITRAL Digest and Beyond: Cases, Analysis and Unresolved Issues in the U.N. Sales Convention will be availble in Oktober 2003, and will include the draft UNCITRAL Digest, even before it is released officially by UNCITRAL. It will also go where the authors of the Digest were not allowed to go, given the narrow mandate within which the drafters were asked to work. Its chapters will build upon the work of the UNCITRAL Digest. The Digest describes the reasoning and results of existing CISG cases; in The Digest and Beyond, the Digest authors will analyze those cases, and discuss issues that have not yet arisen in the case law. Thus, in many ways, The Digest and Beyond will provide scholarship that can direct future cases in areas that have not yet been considered by courts and arbitrators as well as in areas in which contradictory court decisions exist. Each chapter by a Digest author will be followed by commentary written by two other distinguished CISG scholars on important topics dealt with in that part of the Digest. These commentary authors round out a who¿s who of CISG experts from around the world. They are: Joseph Lookofsky, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Michael Bridge, University College, London, UK Maria del Pilar Perales Viscasillas, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain Johan Erauw, University of Ghent, Belgium Henry Gabriel, Loyala University, New Orleans Alejandro Garro, Columbia University Paul Volken, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Ronald A. Brand, University of Pittsburgh Filip De Ly, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands Petar ¿arcevic, University of Rijeka, Croatia John E. Murray, Jr., Chancellor, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh We further anticipate that an introduction will be written by Jernej Sekolec, Secretary of UNCITRAL, and a concluding chapter by Harold Burman of the Office of Private International Law of the U.S. Department of State.
“The Draft UNCITRAL Digest and Beyond” is one of the most useful single volumes available on the CISG. It includes the full text of the draft “UNCITRAL Digest” which catalogues the cases and arbitral awards to date that have interpreted and applied the CISG on an article by article basis. “The Digest and Beyond” includes also commentary by eminent CISG scholars that addresses issues not yet considered in the cases. With more than 1000 decisions applying the CISG in courts and arbitral tribunals around the world, the UNCITRAL Secretariat charged five CISG experts from a variety of regions with the task of creating a digest of CISG case law. “The Digest and Beyond” includes the draft “UNCITRAL Digest”, even before it is released officially by UNCITRAL. It also goes where the authors of the Digest were not allowed to go, given the narrow mandate within which the drafters were asked to work. Its chapters build upon the work of the “UNCITRAL Digest”. The Digest describes the reasoning and results of existing CISG cases; in “The Digest and Beyond”, the Digest authors analyze those cases, and discuss issues that have not yet arisen in the case law. Thus, in many ways, “The Digest and Beyond” provides scholarship that can direct future cases in areas that have not yet been considered by courts and arbitrators as well as in areas in which contradictory court decisions exist.
This publication contains a presentation of case laws rendered in jurisdictions having enacted the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. In light of the large number of cases collected, the Commission requested a tool specifically designed to present selected information on the interpretation and application of the Model Law in a clear, concise and objective manner. This request originated the UNCITRAL Digest of Case Law on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. The purpose of the digest is to assist in the dissemination of information on the Model Law and further promote its adoption as well as its uniform interpretation and application. In addition, the digest is meant to help judges, government officials, arbitrators, practitioners and academics use more efficiently the case law relating to the UNCITRAL text.
The CISG is the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods; a treaty ratified by about 70 countries that provides a uniform international sales law. The occasion of the CISG's 25th anniversary signals something extremely significant in the world of international commercial law: the true coming of age of the CISG, as evidenced by (and as a result of) several thousand available court and arbitration decisions world-wide applying the CISG. To celebrate this occasion, a conference was organized by the University of Pittsburgh's Center for International Legal Education and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). Drafting Contracts Under the CISG is a collaborative and important result of that conference. This publication brings together the intellectually sophisticated yet extremely practical and original contributions written by leading CISG scholars from around the globe and practitioners experienced in dealing with the CISG. Included are 140 sample clauses, a complete model sales agreement, and contextual analysis of contract drafting issues. The CISG is a new reality and is very relevant to US attorneys at the planning and negotiation stages of a sales transaction. It is increasingly the case that a lawyer in the US, or virtually anywhere else, cannot adequately serve a client's needs without knowledge of and skill in using the Convention to help, for example, prevent transactions from aborting over choice of law conflicts, and to offer alternatives that can resolve bargaining impasses. International commercial lawyers will find sample clauses dealing with major contract issues under the CISG, including: - opting into the CISG while providing an appropriate gap-filling source of law - passage of risk of loss - right to inspection of goods - force majeure - warranties and warranty disclaimers - limitations on remedies - choice of forum - pre-contractual relationships and prior communications - confidentiality of negotiations - retention of the power of revocation of an offer - strict time limits for acceptance of an offer - the "battle of the forms" - the law governing contract validity - parole evidence - party rights upon breach - notice requirements to preserve rights - notice of avoidance - entitlement to interest - specific performance versus damages - buyer's right to substitute goods
The Guide on the New York Convention provides an insight on the application of the Convention by State courts.
"... there is a lack of a clear and simple exposition of the CISG for students and practitioners. That is the role of the current book, which it fills admirably. All of the issues that have been raised in the cases and the literature are considered, but without excessive detail. This is a book that will do much to make the CISG an easily understandable text for all users, student and pracitioner alike." Preface by Professor Eric E. Bergsten
Explores how the text and principles of the UNCITRAL Model Arbitration Law are implemented, or not, in key Asian jurisdictions.
This book contains ten writings on different aspects of international law, each of them cross-referenced, in instances in which information in one is relevant to points made in another. The first essay considers the character of the subject, and its relation to other entities of relevance to it, such as its compatibility with national law and its relation to maritime law. The second one considers different types of legal instruments in settings of international law, and explains how to read a multilateral convention, using the Convention for the International Sale of Goods as an example. The third part discusses the characteristics of a state and the concept of recognition, the fourth reviews the various roles that institutions take in international law, concentrating in particular on major regional organisations, and the fifth explores the extent to which the World Trade Organisation and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade provide for developing countries. Essay Six summarises the framework for international labour law and investigates its contents and workings, then the seventh considers which countries predominate in the running of international institutions. The eighth paper explores how regional entities might co-operate with international institutions in the harmonisation of the law, and the ninth one investigates the place of negotiation as a method of international dispute resolution. Finally, the tenth essay considers the past, present and future of international law, and reviews especially the role of language.
This book provides a comprehensive commentary on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Arbitration. Combining both theory and practice, it is written by leading academics and practitioners from Europe, Asia and the Americas to ensure the book has a balanced international coverage. The book not only provides an article-by-article critical analysis, but also incorporates information on the reality of legal practice in UNCITRAL jurisdictions, ensuring it is more than a recitation of case law and variations in legal text. This is not a handbook for practitioners needing a supportive citation, but rather a guide for practitioners, legislators and academics to the reasons the Model Law was structured as it was, and the reasons variations have been adopted.
Private international law is normally discussed in terms of rules applied in litigation involving parties from more than one State. Those same rules are fundamentally important, however, to those who plan crossborder commercial transactions with a desire to avoid having a dispute arise — or at least to place a party in the best position possible if a dispute does arise. This makes rules regarding jurisdiction, applicable law, and the recognition and enforcement of judgments vitally important to contract negotiations. It also makes the consideration of transactional interests important when developing new rules of private international law. These lectures examine rules of jurisdiction and rules of recognition and enforcement of judgments in the United States and the European Union, considering their similarities, their differences, and how they affect the transaction planning process.