Global Sales and Contract Law

• The most comprehensive work on international sales law and practice
• Contains full coverage of the relationship between international sales law and national laws
• Provides comparison between the laws of over sixty jurisdictions to assist with contract drafting and preparation for litigation
• Expert author team led by the editor of Schlechtriem & Schwenzer: Commentary on the CISG and supported by international legal researchers
• Includes commentary on a global scale providing a consistent and uniform approach to the interpretation of international sales law

Readership: Solicitors and barristers advising on the law of international sales, commodities, and arbitration; judicial bodies (including national courts and arbitral tribunals); legislators and policy makers; university libraries.

Ingeborg Schwenzer, Professor of Private Law, The University of Basel, Pascal Hachem, Lecturer, The University of Basel, and Christopher Kee, Lecturer, The University of Aberdeen

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.

Pascal Hachem is a Senior Researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Basel, Switzerland. After completing his studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany, he obtained his PhD summa cum laude from the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Christopher Kee is Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and also holds appointments as a Senior Researcher at the University of Basel, Switzerland and Honorary Fellow of Deakin Law School, Australia. He is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Australia and the Supreme Courts of Victoria and New South Wales and specialises in international arbitration and international commercial law.

1: Introduction
I Sales Law - History and Modern Practice
2: Historical Development of Domestic Sales Law
3: Uniform Laws and Projects
4: Contract and the Law
5: Modern Practice of International Sales Law
II Ambit of Sales Law
6: General Remarks on the Ambit of Sales Law
7: The Concept of Goods
8: Identifying the Boundaries of a Sales Contract
III Formation of the Contract
9: General Remarks on the Formation of Contract
10: Offer and Acceptance
11: Electronic Communications
12: Standard Terms
13: Agency
14: Modification of Contract
IV Validity
15: General Remarks on Validity
16: Capacity to Contract
17: Mistake and Error
18: Fraud and Duress
19: Consequences of Mistake, Fraud and Duress
20: Illegality and Immorality
21: Excessive Benefits and Unfair Advantages
22: Formal Requirements
V Pre-Contractual Liability
23: General Remarks on Pre-Contractual Liability
24: Pre-Contractual Duties
25: Consequences of Breach of Pre-Contractual Duties
VI Construction of Contracts
26: Interpretation and Supplementation
27: Practices and Usages
VII Obligations of the Seller
28: General Remarks on the Obligations of the Seller
29: Delivery
30: Documents and Costs
31: Conformity of the Goods
32: Third Party Property Rights
33: Industrial and Intellectual Property Rights
34: Examination and Notice
VIII Obligations of the Buyer
35: General Remarks on the Obligations of the Buyer
36: Payment of the Purchase Price
37: Taking Delivery
Part IX Passing of Risk
38: Passing of Risk
X Transfer of Title
39: Transfer of Title
40: Transfer of Title by a Non-Owner
XI Remedies for Breach of Contract
41: General Remarks about Remedies
42: Suspension of Performance
43: Specific Performance
44: Damages
45: Exemption
46: Interest
47: Avoidance
48: Price Reduction
49: Concurrent Remedies
XII Unwinding of the Contract
50: Unwinding of the Contract
XIII Limitation of Actions
51: Limitation of Actions