New book forthcoming!

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the CISG: A commemorative Volume celebrating 30 years of the Convention of International Sales of Goods

International Trade Law’s success and efficacy depend upon, at the very lowest level,
a contract law that addresses, eloquently enough, the rights and obligations of the
contracting parties. Beyond this simplistic understanding, the efficacy is largely
dependent upon building cross-references between the laws that apply across
territorial limitations, and ensuring that legal systems, diverse that they are, work the cross-referencing, almost seamlessly.

Table of contents:
• Revisiting the CISG for reforms
• Harmonised Law vs Unification of Private International Law
• Article 7 – Interpretation Clause – Could the principle of ‘international
interpretation’ allow for reference outside the CISG, to the Vienna Convention
on the Law of Treaties?
• Relational contracts – are they new form of contracting? Making the case for
reading the CISG and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial
Contracts
• The concept of good faith in the CISG
• CISG as the applicable law – The evolving interpretations
• CISG and its intersection with consumer law
• Intellectual Property Rights and Article 42 of the CISG
• International sale contracts and the competition law – does a contract term
invalid under the domestic law for unfair competition practices allow valid
rights for the contracting parties under the CISG?
• An economic analysis of the CISG
• E-commerce and the CISG
• Promoting trade through private law instruments – could the uniform law
under the CISG be an effective alternative to the Preferential Trade
Arrangements?
• The role of CISG in enhancing transparency / combatting corruption
• An evolution of the Advisory Council as a source of law in CISG