Recently added cases, case translations and commentaries
[New material added in May 2010]
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Cases and case translations added to database in May 2010
[new material identified in red]
UNITED STATES 7 April 2010 Court of International Trade (Pasta Zava S.p.A v. United States et al.). Arts. 8, 14, 18
- Key issues identified in this newly reported case
UNITED STATES 2 April 2010 Federal District Court [Arkansas] (Electrocraft Arkansas, Inc. v. Super Electric Motors, Ltd et al.). Art. 93
- Key issues identified in this newly reported case
NETHERLANDS 17 March 2010
Rechtbank [District Court] Rotterdam (Potipora Alimentos S.L. v. _____). Arts. 7, 74, 78
FRANCE 12 March 2010
Tribunal de commerce [District Court] Versailles (Medical electronic equipment case). Arts. 53, 64, 74, 78
NETHERLANDS 25 November 2009
Rechtbank [District Court] Rotterdam (Potipora Alimentos S.L. v. Global Producers B.V.). Arts. [-]
CHINA 18 April 2008 CIETAC Arbitration Award [CISG 2008/01] (PTA powder case). Arts. 4, 25, 35, 49, 74, 84 [translation added]
- Key issues identified in this newly reported case
SLOVENIA 9 April 2008 Appellate Court Lujubljana. Arts. 16, 18
- Key issues identified in this newly reported case
SPAIN 8 April 2008 Audiencia Provincial [Appellate Court] Valencia (Extruding machine case). Arts. 39, 53, 59, 78 [translation added]
- Key issues identified in this newly translated case
CHINA 9 January 2008 CIETAC Arbitration Award [CISG 2008/02] (Metallic silicon case). Arts. 8, 9, 13, 18, 23, 29, 51, 74, 75, 76, 80 [translation added]
- Key issues identified in this newly reported case
CHINA 24 July 2007 CIETAC Arbitration Award [CISG 2007/07] (Flexo label printing machine case). Arts. 8, 25, 39, 46, 49, 74 [translation added]
- Key issues identified in this newly reported case
CHINA 23 March 2007 CIETAC Arbitration Award [CISG 2007/08] (Offset printing machines case). Art. 8 [translation added]
- Key issues identified in this newly reported case
RUSSIA 15 November 2006 Arbitration Award 30/2006. Arts. 4, 7, 53, 61, 62, 78, 79, 81 [translation added]
- Key issues identified in this newly translated case
SERBIA 30 October 2006 Foreign Trade Court of Arbitration, Serbian Chamber of Commerce (Trolleybus case). Arts. 4, 74, 78, 84 [translation added]
- Key issues identified in this newly reported case
BELARUS 31 July 2006 Cassational Board of the Supreme Economic Court (Bird factory case). Arts. 4, 61(3) [translation added]
- Key issues identified in this newly reported case
SERBIA 21 February 2005 Foreign Trade Court of Arbitration, Serbian Chamber of Commerce (Chicken case). Arts. 53, 78 [translation added]
- Key issues identified in this newly reported case
SERBIA 27 May 2004 Foreign Trade Court of Arbitration, Serbian Chamber of Commerce (Hydro-isolation material case). Arts. 59, 62, 78 [translation added]
- Key issues identified in this newly reported case
Texts of commentaries added to database in May 2010
ANDERSEN, Camilla Baasch [Denmark]
2010. Practical Jurisconsultorium Cases by Country (16 April 2010) 7 p.
ANDERSEN, Camilla Baasch / MAZZOTTA, Francesco / ZELLER, Bruno
2010. The Nature of CISG Case Law: The Key to Uniformity and Many Persuasive Examples for Counsel to Draw from, in: Introduction to Andersen / Mazzotta / Zeller, A Practitioner's Guide to the CISG, Juris Publishing (May 2010)
BELINE, Thomas M. [U.S]
2007. Legal Defect Protected by Article 42 of the CISG: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, 7 University of Pittsburgh Journal of Technology Law Policy (2010) 6 et seq.
BONELL, Michael Joachim [Italy]
2008 / 2009. The CISG and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts: Two Complementary Instruments, 10 International Law Review of Wuhan University (2008-2009) 100-117
BRIDGE, Michael G. [United Kingdom]
2008 / 2009. The Nature and Consequences of Avoidance of the Contract Under the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods, 10 International Law Review of Wuhan University (2008-2009) 118-128
BRÖDERMANN, Eckart
2007. The Practice of Excluding the CISG: Time for a Change?, Comment on the limited use of the
CISG in private practice (and on why this will increasingly change), presentation at the Modern Law for
Global Commerce: Congress to Celebrate the Fortieth Annual Season of UNCITRAL (9-12 July
2007), available online at <http://www.uncitral.org/pdf/english/congress/Broedermann-rev.pdf>
CHEN, Bin [China]
2008 / 2009. Case Studies on the Application of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, 10 International Law Review of Wuhan University (2008-2009) 235-266
EISELEN, Siegfried [South Africa]
2008 / 2009. The CISG and Electronic Issues, 10 International Law Review of Wuhan University (2008-2009) 128-155
HANSEBOUT, Alexander
2010. Landmark Supreme Court decision on hardship under CISG (16 April 2010) available online via <http://www.internationallawoffice.com/Newsletters> [Case note on ruling of Court of Cassation of Belgium dated 19 June 2009]
HOFMANN, Nathalie [Germany]
2010. Interpretation Rules and Good Faith as Obstacles to the UK's Ratification of the CISG and to
the Harmonization of Contract Law in Europe, 22 Pace International Law Review (Winter 2010)
141-181
JUREWICZ, Aleksandra [Poland]
2009. A Milestone in Polish CISG Jurisprudence and Its Significance to the World Trade Community,
28 Journal of Law and Commerce (Fall 2009) 63-74
KRITZER, Albert H. [U.S.]
2008 / 2009. Celebrating and Researching the CISG: Progress in the Rule of Law in China, 10 International Law Review of Wuhan University (2008-2009) 129-137
RIZNIK, Peter [Slovenia]
2009. Article 77 CISG: Reasonableness of the Measures Undertaken to Mitigate the Loss (10 November 2009)
SMYTHE, Donald J. [U.S.]
2010. The Road to Nowhere: Caterpillar v. Usinor and CISG Claims by Downstream Buyers Against Remote Sellers (18 March 2010) 37 p., available online at <http://works.bepress.com/donald_smythe/1/>
WINSOR, Katrina [New Zealand]
2010. The Applicability of the CISG to Govern Sales of Commodity Type Goods, 14 Vindobona
Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration (1/2010) 83-116
WITZ, Claude [France]
2008 / 2009. Contract Drafting under the CISG, 10 International Law Review of Wuhan University (2008-2009) 129-137
ZELLER, Bruno [Australia]
2006. The Challenge of a Uniform Application of the CISG: Common problems and their solutions, 3 Macquarie Journal of Business Law (2006) 309-321, available online at <http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MqJlBLaw/2006/14.html>
Citations to be added to database bibliography
FERRARI, Franco [Italy]
2008. La loi applicables aux contrats conclus par les consommateurs (Article 5 de la Convention de Rome [The law applicable to contracts concluded by consumers - in French], Revue de droit des affaires internationales (2008) 234-262
FERRARI, Franco [Italy]
2009. Hadley v. Baxendale: La prevedilibilita deli'art. 74 CISG [Hadley v. Baxendale v. Foreseeability under Article 74 CISG - in Italian], in: Trattato della responsabilita contrattuale, vol. 3, Giovanna Visintini ed., Il resarcimento del danno contrattuale. La responsabilita per ritardo e per fatto degli ausiliari, Cedam: Padua (2009) 365-393
FERRARI, Franco [Italy]
2009. Eigentumsübertragung [Transfer of ownership - in German], in: Jürgen Basedow / Klaus Hopt / Rainer Zimmerman, eds., Handbuch des europäische Privatrecht, Mohr Siebeck Verlag: Tübingen (2009) 367-371
FERRARI, Franco [Italy]
2009. Einheitsrecht [Uniform Law - in German], in: Jürgen Basedow / Klaus Hopt / Rainer Zimmerman, eds., Handbuch des europäische Privatrecht, Mohr Siebeck Verlag: Tübingen (2009) 376-380
FERRARI, Franco [Italy]
2009. Factoring [ - in German], in: Jürgen Basedow / Klaus Hopt / Rainer Zimmerman, eds., Handbuch des europäische Privatrecht, Mohr Siebeck Verlag: Tübingen (2009) 569-573
FERRARI, Franco [Italy]
2009. Leasing [ - in German], in: Jürgen Basedow / Klaus Hopt / Rainer Zimmerman, eds., Handbuch des europäische Privatrecht, Mohr Siebeck Verlag: Tübingen (2009) 1001-1005
FERRARI, Franco [Italy]
2009. UNCITRAL [ - in German], in: Jürgen Basedow / Klaus Hopt / Rainer Zimmerman, eds., Handbuch des europäische Privatrecht, Mohr Siebeck Verlag: Tübingen (2009) 1531-1534
FERRARI, Franco [Italy]
2009. UNIDROIT Übereinkommen über Internationales Factoring (Ottawa 1988), Einleitung, Anwendungsbereich und allgemeine Bestimmungen [The UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring. Introduction, Sphere of Application and General Provisions - in German], in: Münchener Kommentar zum Handelsgesetzbuch, C.H. Beck Verlag: Munich (2009) 1771-1840
FERRARI, Franco [Italy]
2009. From Rome to Rome via Brussels: Remarks on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations Absent a Choice of the Parties (Art. 4 of the Rome I Regulations), Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (2009) 751-769
FERRARI, Franco [Italy]
2009. Quelques remarques sur le droit applicable aux obligations contractuelles en l'absence de choix des parties (art. 4 de règlement Rome I) [Remarks on the applicable law absent a choice by the parties - in French], Revue de droit des affaires internationales (2009) 459-482
FERRARI, Franco [Italy]
2009. Fuentes aplicables a la compraventa internacional de mercaderias [Sources applicable to contracts for the international sale of goods - in Spanish], Barcelona (2009) 127 p.
FERRARI, Franco [Italy]
2010. Die Vereinbeitlichung des Abtretungsrechts als Spiegel der Vereinheitlichung des internationalen Handelsrechts im allgemeinen [The unification of the law of assignment of receivables as a mirror of the unification of commercial law in general - in German], in: J. Basedow et al., ed., Europãisches Kreditsicherungsrecht, Ulrich Drobnig zum 80, Geburtstag, Mohr Siebeck Verlag: Tübingen (2010) 129-145
FERRARI, Franco [Italy]
2010. El papel de la unificacion regional en la unificacion del derecho de compraventa [The place of regional unification in respect of the unification of sales law - in Spanish], in: Jürgen Basedow / Diego P. Fernandez Arroyo / José A. Moreno Rodriques eds., Como se codifica hoy el derecho commercial internatcional?, Asuncion (2010) 227-244
FUNK, Y.L. / KALIMOV, D.A . / SERGEEV, V.P. [Russia]
2007. [International Trade Law Course: Basic International Trade Transactions - in Russian] (2007)
PAVIC, Vladimir / DJORDJEVIC, Milena [Serbia]
2009. Application of Articles 1 and 10 of the CISG in Serbian arbitral practice, 16 Croatian Arbitration Yearbook: Zagreb (2009) 249-266
RINKES, Jac G.J. [Netherlands]
2009. Optional Commercial Contract Law: Global Experiences - European Perspectives, European
Journal of Commercial Contract Law (4/2009) 184-193
SCHWENZER, Ingeborg [Germany / Switzerland]
2010. The Application of the CISG in Light of National Law, Internationales Handelsgericht (2/2010) 45-56
SESE, A.
2010. [International Implications of the PRC Contract Law: Compared with CISG, PECL, UCC and Amendment Draft to Japanese Civil Code - in Japanese], Kokusai shoji homu: Tokyo (2010) Pt. 1 at 38:3:199-306
VÉKÁS, Lajos [Hungary]
2010. About Contract Law in the New Hungarian Civil Code, 6 European Review of Contract Law (1/2010) 95-102
ZWARG, Christian
2010. Der Nacherfüllungsanspruch im BGB aus der Sicht eines verständigen Käufers zugleich ein
Rechtsvergleich zum CISG [ - in German], Thesis, U. of Trier, Lang: Frankfurt am Main (2010) 414 p.
