Global Commercial Contracts: Introduction to CISG, PICC and other International Instruments

There are numerous practical challenges in the creation and enforcement of international commercial contracts for the sale of goods. Global Commercial Contracts provides an accessible but comprehensive overview of these challenges and the impact of various international instruments on these contracts.

This book provides an introduction to the international law relevant to international commercial contracts and describe their effects in practical terms. It analyses the effect of the Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG), and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC), highlighting their differences. The book also explores other essential international instruments including the UN Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Commercial Contracts, the UN Convention on Limitation, Incoterms© 2020, UCP 600, and the URDG 750. The difficult topic of conflicts of laws is also examined and explained.

Covering all aspects of international contracts, with emphasis on sale contracts, from formation and interpretation to dispute resolution, this new work fills a gap for an introductory guide on this fundamental topic.

Ingeborg Schwenzer and Edgardo Muñoz

Ingeborg Schwenzer is Professor Emerita of Private Law at the University of Basel and former Dean of Swiss International Law School. She is an adjunct professor at Bond University, Australia, and has taught at many leading universities on all five continents. Schwenzer has published extensively on contract law, tort law, sales law, and arbitration. She co-edits the leading Commentary on the CISG (5th edition, Oxford, 2022) and its versions in multiple languages. From 2011 to 2018, she chaired the CISG Advisory Council. Schwenzer is also active in international legal practice, regularly serving as arbitrator, counsel, and legal expert.

Edgardo Muñoz is Professor at Universidad Panamericana's School of Law in Mexico and an experienced arbitrator multiple jurisdictions. Licensed in California, U.S., and Mexico, he studied law in Mexico, France, and holds LL.M. degrees from the University of Liverpool and UC Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. summa cum laude from Basel University. He is the author of multiple publication on international contracts and arbitration. He serves on the ICC World Commission on Arbitration, the General Council of Mexico's Arbitration Center, CISG Advisory Council, ITA Academic Council, and is UNIDROIT's Correspondent in Mexico.