International sales law : a global challenge / edited by Larry A. DiMatteo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Global challenge of international sales law / Larry A. DiMatteo -- History of the CISG, and its present status / Vikki Rogers and Kaon Lai -- CISG : divergences between success-scarcity and theory-practice / Olaf Meyer -- CISG sources and researching the cisg / Marie Stefanini Newman -- CISG translation issues : reducing legal babelism / Claire M. Germain -- CISG in national courts / Camilla Andersen -- Interpretive methodologies in the interpretation of the CISG / Larry DiMatteo & Andre Janssen -- Divergent interpretations : reasons and solutions / Ingeborg Schwenzer -- Good faith principle : vexata quaestio / Francesco G. Mazzotta -- CISG and international arbitration / Andre Janssen and Matthias Spilker -- The CISG as soft law & choice of law / Lisa Spagnolo -- Contract formation / Morton Midtgaard Fogt -- CISG and the battle of the forms / Bruno Zeller -- Conformity of goods : inspection and notice / Harry M. Flechtner -- Interpreting fundamental breach / Aneta Spaic -- Remedies : damages, price reduction, avoidance, mitigation, and preservation / Ulrich Magnus -- Legal costs as reimbursable damages / Burghard Piltz -- Excuse of impediment and its usefulness / Martin Davies -- Austria / Wolfgang Faber -- Baltic states, Belarus, and Ukraine / Tadas Klimas -- France / Sylvaine Poillot-Peruzzetto -- Germany country analysis : good faith, formation, and conformity of goods / Stefan Kroll -- Germany country analysis : remedies / Sorren Kiene -- Italy / Edoardo Ferrante -- The Nordic countries / Jan Ramberg -- CISG in southeastern Europe / Milena Djordjevic and Vladimir Pavic -- Spain / Pilar Perales Viscasillas and Javier Solana Alvarez -- Switzerland / Corinne Widmer Luchinger -- The Netherlands / Sonja A. Kruisinga -- Islamic legal systems and the CISG : the case of Egypt / Hossam A. El-Saghir -- Israel / Yehuda Adar -- New Zealand / Petra Butler -- Peoples' Republic of China / Li Wei -- United States and Canada / Robert W. Emerson & Ann M. Olazabal -- Central and South America / Virginia G. Maurer -- CISG across national legal systems / Larry A. DiMatteo -- Problems of uniform laws / Jan M. Smits -- CISG as bridge between common and civil law / Sieg Eiselen -- Pre-contractual liability and preliminary agreements / Marco Torsello -- Empirical evidence of courts and counsels' approach to the CISG (with some remarks on professional liability) / Ulrich Schroeter -- CISG and English sales law: an unfair competition / Qi Zhou -- CISG in context of complementary texts / Luca Castellani -- Soft laws as models for the improvement of the CISG / Ole Lando -- Using the CISG proactively / Helena Haapio -- Future challenge of international sales law / Larry A. DiMatteo.