This concise work by the leading global expert on sale of goods law provides the perfect starting point for anyone requiring an introduction to international commercial contracts.
The book's comprehensive but accessible structure provides the reader with analysis of the relevant international law together with consideration of the practical issues relating to international contracts. Providing all elements necessary for understanding international contract law, consideration is given to unified and harmonized law alongside general principles found in Common and Civil Law legal systems.
The book begins by considering issues of applicable law and conflicts of laws before analysing the main initiatives and instruments of harmonisation. There is considerable focus on the two main instruments (The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG); and The Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC)) including analysis of the scope of their application. Other international instruments considered include the UN Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Commercial Contracts, and the UN Convention on Limitation, as well as the main forms used in practice: the IncotermsCO 2010; and UCP 600.
All relevant law and practice is examined through a series of topic based chapters covering all relevant areas from freedom, interpretation, formation and validity of contract to sellers' and buyers obligations. There are also specific chapters on aspects relevant to disputes such as remedies, unwinding of contracts and limitation of actions.
Ingeborg Schwenzer is Professor Emerita of Private Law at the University of Basel and former Dean of Swiss International Law School. She is an adjunct professor at Bond University, Australia, and has taught at many leading universities on all five continents. Schwenzer has published extensively on contract law, tort law, sales law, and arbitration. She co-edits the leading Commentary on the CISG (5th edition, Oxford, 2022) and its versions in multiple languages. From 2011 to 2018, she chaired the CISG Advisory Council. Schwenzer is also active in international legal practice, regularly serving as arbitrator, counsel, and legal expert.
Edgardo Muñoz is Professor at Universidad Panamericana's School of Law in Mexico and an experienced arbitrator multiple jurisdictions. Licensed in California, U.S., and Mexico, he studied law in Mexico, France, and holds LL.M. degrees from the University of Liverpool and UC Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. summa cum laude from Basel University. He is the author of multiple publication on international contracts and arbitration. He serves on the ICC World Commission on Arbitration, the General Council of Mexico's Arbitration Center, CISG Advisory Council, ITA Academic Council, and is UNIDROIT's Correspondent in Mexico.
