The 1980 Uniform Sales Law

The trend towards the unification of international commercial law is one of the most charateristic features of the law of the second half of the twentieth century. The sheer numbers of the international uniform commercial law instruments elaborated to this end bear witness to this development. Against this backdrop, the Faculty of Law of Verona University hosted a Conference from 17 to 19 April 2003 to discuss what is considered the most important and successful uniform commercial law instrument, namely the 1980 UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). On that occasion, some of the most famous CISG experts and scholars such as Filip De Ly, Franco Ferrari, Harry Flechtner, Rolf Herber, Alain Levasseur, Joseph Lookofsky, Ulrich Magnus, Anna Veneziano, Claude Witz, meet to examine issues dear both to practitioners and scholars. In doing so, the speakers all took into account recent experiences, such as the emergence of case law and the revision of domestic legislation in the area of sales law. This book contains the proceedings of the Verona Conference, aimed at highlighting the CISG’s impact not only on courts, but also on legislators, international and domestic alike.