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The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods

The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods

The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods

Theory and Practice
2nd Edition
Clayton P. Gillette, New York University School of Law
Steven D. Walt, University of Virginia School of Law
May 2016
Available
Paperback
9781316604168

    Updated and expanded for the second edition, this volume provides attorneys, academics and students with a detailed yet accessible overview of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Adopted by more than eighty nations and governing a significant portion of international sales, the CISG regulates contract formation, performance, risk of loss, conformity to contractual requirements and remedies for breach. This volume explains the CISG doctrines and their ambiguities, and appraises the extent to which the doctrines reduce transaction costs for commercial actors. Its topic-based approach will be ideal for those pursuing academic analysis or subject-specific research.

    • Features a topic-based organization, ideal for cross-subject research and courses in international sales law
    • The second edition has been revised and expanded to include developing case law and more comprehensive treatments of warranties, exemption and scope issues
    • Is distinct among course books in examining CISG through the lens of economic analysis

    Product details

    May 2016
    Paperback
    9781316604168
    462 pages
    227 × 152 × 24 mm
    0.65kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • 1. The CISG: history, methodology and construction
    • 2. The scope of the CISG
    • 3. Contract formation
    • 4. Implied terms and interpretation
    • 5. Performance
    • 6. Liability for nonconformity
    • 7. Risk of loss
    • 8. Exemption from performance
    • 9. Remedies
    • Appendix I: text of the CISG
    • Appendix II: CISG status table
    • Table of cases.
      Authors
    • Clayton P. Gillette , New York University School of Law

      Clayton P. Gillette is the Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract Law at the New York University School of Law. He is the author of numerous articles on commercial law and he is coauthor, with Steven D. Walt, of Sales Law: Domestic and International, 3rd edition (2016).

    • Steven D. Walt , University of Virginia School of Law

      Steven D. Walt is the Percy Brown, Jr Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and a widely published author in the areas of commercial law and jurisprudence.