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CISG Exclusion and Legal Efficiency


ISBN13: 9789041154071
Published: July 2014
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Country of Publication: The Netherlands
Format: Hardback
Price: £178.00



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The rationale behind the Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is that a uniform sales law will lead to improved efficiency of cross-border sales and promote international trade.

However, although it continues to attract new Member States and now applies to more than 80% of global trade, commercial parties often exclude the CISG, questioning it as a desirable choice of law. The book uses an impressive array of methodologies to review the aims and applicability of the CISG and examine its qualities. An analysis of available empirical evidence regarding exclusion of the CISG in practice reveals the various factors which appear to influence lawyer choices to exclude the CISG.

Then, through the prisms of behavioural economics, psychology, game theory, group dynamics, and institutional behaviour, the author identifies the factors that influence the frequency of use of the CISG in practice, and critiques the normative underpinning of the CISG to test whether it is indeed presently an efficient law, what factors affect its efficiency, and whether its efficiency can be improved.

Among the crucial aspects of trade that rise to salience in the course of the analysis are the following:-

  • maximization of net exchange gains and potential welfare gains;
  • cconsequences of coverage by the CISG of pre-contractual liability;
  • waiver of the application of the CISG during legal proceedings;
  • the degree to which exclusions of the CISG are inefficient choices of law; and
  • choices of law in different jurisdictions and likely future changes in choices.
By bringing together cross-disciplinary elements of empirical research, statistical analysis, economic and behavioural theory, and their doctrinal implications, this book presents a contextual and realist insight into how and why harmonized international sales law is utilized in global trade. It brings all existing empirical and anecdotal evidence together and draws significant conclusions about the present and future of CISG exclusions.

Practitioners in international trade, arbitrators, government officials, and academics will all welcome its enormously useful fund of information, and lawyers interested in whether excluding or including the CISG is in their clients’ interests will here find means to improve decision making and increase their confidence in providing effective advice.

Subjects:
International Trade, Taxation
Contents:
CHAPTER 1 Introduction.
CHAPTER 2 Birth of the CISG: Its Applicability and Nature.
CHAPTER 3 Economics and the CISG.
CHAPTER 4 The CISG and Efficiency: Substantive Advantages and Disadvantages.
CHAPTER 5 The CISG and Efficiency: Non-substantive Advantages and Disadvantages.
CHAPTER 6 Lawyer Opt-Out Rates and Reasons.
CHAPTER 7 Interdisciplinary Analysis of Lawyers Choices of Law.
CHAPTER 8 Interpretation in Light of Reasons for Exclusion and Efficiency.
CHAPTER 9 Precontractual Liability and the Efficiency Dilemma.
CHAPTER 10 Exclusion by Conduct of Legal Proceedings.
CHAPTER 11 Conclusion.
Bibliography.
Index.