Professor Ferrari publishes paper on the interpretation of the CISG

Professor Franco Ferrari, the Center’s Director, is known for his work on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), one of the most successful uniform contract law instruments. This his most recent paper, Professor Ferrari identifies two trends in case law interpreting the CISG: the homeward trend and the outward trend, both of which are disruptive of the goal behind the CISG. The paper analyses the trends and suggests how to tackle them to promote a uniform application of the CISG. For a link to the paper, please click here:

https://academic.oup.com//ulr/article/22/1/244/3091168/Autonomous-Interpretation-versus-Homeward-Trend?guestAccessKey=e3e54fd0-6b34-4c04-80fc-cd3a40c834d4