35 Years CISG and Beyond

Editorial ix

List of Contributors xi

Part I Economic Analysis of the CISG
1 Saving Transaction Costs 3
Burghard Piltz

2 Choice of Law in Practice – A Global Empirical Survey 9
Luiz Gustavo Meira Moser

Part II The Decline of Reservations
3 Reservations andtheCISG:The Borderland of Uniform International Sales Law and Treaty Law after 35 Years 29
Ulrich G. Schroeter

4 Reservations, the Case of the Scandinavian Countries 67
Jan Ramberg

5 The Reservation from the Freedom of Form Principle of the CISG: The Case of Russia 71
Djakhongir Saidov

6 The Application of the CISG in International Commercial Arbitration in China 91
Shiyuan Han

Part III Extending the CISG
7 Extending the Scope ofthe 1980 ViennaConvention on the International Sale of Goods to Framework Distribution Contracts 115
María del Pilar Perales Viscasillas

8 Natural Gas and the CISG 139
Florian Mohs


9 The CISG and Statute of Limitations 151
Pascal Hachem

10 Control of Unfair Standard Terms in International Commercial Contracts 165
Sieg Eiselen

11 CISG and the Default Interest Rate in Arbitration 179
Jan Ramberg

Part IV CISG, State Action and Regionalisation
12 Do We Really Need Special Provisions for Business-to-Consumer Sales? 185
Yeşim M. Atamer

13 Application oftheCISGto InternationalGovernmentProcurement of Goods 205
Cesar Pereira

14 OHADA and CISG: Alternatives or Complementary Instruments? 223
Jean Alain Penda Matipe

15 Harmonization in the European Union 235
Claude Witz

16 Contract Law in Latin America: Building of a ‘Latin American’ Ius Commune on Contract Law 253
Alejandro M. Garro

Part V CISG and Fair Contract Law
17 The Politics of Fairness in CISG 269
Hans-W. Micklitz and Leticia Diez Sanchez