International Sales Law A Global Challenge [Paperback]

This book brings together scholars from twenty-three countries to review the Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods.This book brings together the top international sales law scholars from twenty-three countries to review the Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods (CISG) and its role in the unification of global sales law at present and into the future.This book brings together the top international sales law scholars from twenty-three countries to review the Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods (CISG) and its role in the unification of global sales law at present and into the future.Part I. History and Researching the CISG: 1. Global challenge of international sales law Larry A. DiMatteo; 2. History of the CISG and its present status Vikki Rogers and Kaon Lai; 3. CISG: divergences between success-scarcity and theory-practice Olaf Meyer; 4. CISG sources and researching the CISG Marie Stefanini Newman; 5. CISG translation issues: reducing legal babelism Claire M. Germain; 6. CISG in national courts Camilla Andersen; Part II. Interpretation and Use of CISG: 7. Interpretive methodologies in the interpretation of the CISG Larry A. DiMatteo and Andra`Janssen; 8. Divergent interpretations  reasons and solutions Ingeborg Schwenzer; 9. Good faith principle  vexata quaestio Francesco G. Mazzotta; 10. CISG and international arbitration Andr? Janssen and Matthias Spilker; 11. The CISG as soft law and choice of law Lisa Spagnolo; Part III. Interpreting CISGs Substantive Provisions: 12. Contract formation Morton Midtgaard Fogt; 13. CISG and the battle of the formThis book brings together the top international sales law scholars from twenty-three countries to review the Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods (CISG) and its role in the unification of global sales law at present and into the future. The book covers three general research methodologies: (1) Doctrinal or Descriptive, (2) Theoretical, and (3) Pracl-