State of Play

Description
Preface

Table of Contents

	The CISG and the United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts
	Property Damages Under the CISG
	The Use of Law and Economics Arguments in Cases Governed by CISG
	Documentary Performance and the CISG
	Disgorgement of Profits under the CISG
	Conformity of the Goods – Physical Features on the Wane?
	The UNIDROIT Principles of Hardship and the Application of Article 79 CISG: Are They Compatible?

Description

This book contains the updated papers of the 3rd Annual MAA Peter Schlechtriem CISG Conference, which was held on 14 April 2011 in Vienna. The contributions cover a variety of topics. Subjects discussed include the trends in the relative importance of physical and non-physical attributes of goods in terms of conformity under the CISG, the characteristics of various forms of documentary performance and the outer limits of the CISG in relation to property damages.

Target group

This publication is aimed at academics and professionals working in the field of commercial law, trade law and investment disputes.

Author's information

Ingeborg Schwenzer is a Professor Ordinaria für Privatrecht at the University of Basel. After completing her law studies in Tübingen, Geneva and Freiburg, Professor Schwenzer obtained an LL.M. summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley, and her PhD summa cum laude from the University of Freiburg. Professor Schwenzer is editor of the leading Schlechtriem/Schwenzer CISG commentaries in both German and English, and member of the Advisory Council on the CISG. She has published widely in the areas of comparative law, international commercial law, the law of obligations, as well as family law, and is regularly called upon to act as counsel, expert witness and arbitrator in these fields.

Lisa Spagnolo has an LLB with First Class Honours, and is a Supreme Court Prize winner. She has been awarded Best Speaker in the Governor-General's Moot, and has a long association with the Vis Commercial Arbitration moot in Vienna and Hong Kong, both as a student (awarded Honourable Mention as an advocate) and as a guest arbitrator. She practised with Minter Ellison as a commercial litigator, particularly in the area of banking and insolvency. Lisa is a PhD candidate. Her thesis is on international sales and she currently lectures in Contract and Property Law at Monash University.

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