There is no better occasion than the 25th anniverary of the United Nation Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) to examine whether, and if so, to what extent that Convention has reached its goal of unifying the law of international sale of goods. By giving an account of how that Convention had been applied in the various countries, the papers published in this book allow the reader to assess the degree of uniformity reached and, ultimately, determine how successful that Convention really is.


I. General Issues

Franco Ferrari:
Do Courts Interpret the CISG Uniformly?

Filip De Ly:
Opting out. Some Observations on the Occasion of the CISG's 25th Anniversary

Marco Torsello:
Remedies for Breach of Contract under the 1980 Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods


II. Applications of the CISG

Harry M. Flechtner:
The CISG in U.S. Courts. The Evolution (and Devolution) of the Methodology of Interpretation

Alejandro M. Garro:
Some Misunderstandings about the U.N. Sales Convention in Latin America

André Janssen:
The Application of the CISG in Dutch Courts

Joseph Lookofsky:
CISG Case Law in Scandinavia

Ulrich Magnus:
CISG in the German Federal Civil Court

Pilar Perales Viscasillas:
Spanish Case Law on the CISG

Willibald Posch/Ulfried Terlitza:
The CISG before Austrian Courts

Bruno Zeller:
The CISG in Australasia - An Overview