A Practical Guide to the CISG

Download or read book A Practical Guide to the CISG written by A. E. Butler and published by Aspen Pub. This book was released on 2006 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is a multilateral treaty governing the rights and obligations of parties to international sales contracts. Acting as a sort of UCC for international transactions, the CISG has been ratified by 63 countries that account for two-thirds of all world trade. Any practitioner working with or for a company selling goods overseas simply must know this law. Aspen Publishers' practice-oriented A Practical Guide to the CISG: Negotiations Through Litigation organizes the vast array of CISG issues by contract topic, making it easy for you to cut to the core of key topics such as whether or not CISG applies, entering the contract, performance requirements under CISG, passing of the risk, remedies, and damages. This highly practical resource delivers features and benefits you won't find anywhere else: Complete, clause-by-clause analysis of the CISG Every provision of the CISG is accompanied by practitioners' 'Points of Interest' providing thorough legal analyses of specific factual patterns as applied to the CISG Sample pleadings accompanied by relevant law(s) provide basic blueprints applicable to particular case patterns Includes the list of goods that fall under CISG and those that are excluded All relevant citations are included, saving you time and making it unnecessary to search through numerous sources The primary focus - how courts have addressed each problem - keeps your research on track and always relevant