With the growing complexity of international trade, practitioners in
commercial law increasingly need access to scholarly sources and foreign
case law. A goal of the United Nations Convention on the International
Sale of Goods (CISG) has been the standard of a “global
jurisconsultorium,” where judges and arbitrators would share resources
and consult what has been done in foreign jurisdictions. However,
without the prior work of material-collecting, proper translation into
English, and organization of the resulting abundance of material,
compliance with this goal would be impossible. The Practitioner’s Guide to the CISG
is a direct answer to that need and a decisive step toward fulfilling
that goal. Written by three scholars from six different countries, the
book represents the best analyses of CISG cases available anywhere. The
chapters that follow provide legal counsel with easy, organized access
to key, legal case abstracts drawn from multiple jurisdictions and
valuable, summary comments on each article of the CISG.