35 years CISG and beyond / Ingeborg Schwenzer (ed.)

Contents: Part I Economic analysis of the CISG: 1. Saving transaction costs / B. Piltz
2. Choice of law in practice - a global empirical survey / L.G. Meira Moser
Part II The decline of reservations: 3. Reservations and the CISG: the borderland of uniform international sales law and treaty law after 35 years / U.G. Schroeter
4. Reservations, the case of the Scandinavian countries / J. Ramberg
5. The reservation from the freedom of form principle of the CISG: the case of Russia / D. Saidov
6. The application of the CISG in international commercial arbitration in China / S. Han
Part III Extending the CISG: 7. Extending the scope of the 1980 Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods to framework distribution contracts / M.P. Perales Viscasillas
8. Natural gas and the CISG / F. Mohs
9. The CISG and statute of limitations / P. Hachem
10. Control of unfair standard terms in international commercial contracts / S. Eiselen
11. CISG and the default interest rate in arbitration / J. Ramberg
Part VI CISG, state action and regionalisation: 12. Do we really need special provisions for business-to-consumer sales? / Y.M. Atamer
13. Application of the CISG to international government procurement of goods / C. Pereira
14. OHADA and CISG: alternatives or complementary instruments? / J.A. Penda Matipe
15. Harmonization in the European Union / C. Witz
16. Contract law in Latin America: building of a 'Latin American' ius commune on contract law / A.M. Garro
Part V CISG and fair contract law: 17. The politics of fairness in CISG / H-W. Micklitz and L. Diez Sanchez
18. The CISG - a secret weapon in the fight for a fairer world? / P. Butler
19. International fair trade (fair trade in international contracts and ethical standard) / P. Nalin
20. Beyond CISG: agricultural production under contract / A. Veneziano
21. The future of contract law harmonization: a view from Unidroit / J.A. Estrella Faria