Ingeborg Schwenzer talks to Law Vox about the CISG

Oxford Law Vox

In this podcast renowned international sales law expert Ingeborg Schwenzer talks to Florence Jaeger about the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Together they discuss the Convention’s current standing internationally and its effects on European Contract Law, UNIDROIT, as well as on domestic legislation. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/schlechtriem-and-schwenzer-commentary-on-the-un-convention-on-the-international-sale-of-goods-9780198723264 In an illuminating conversation, they discuss the alternatives to the CISG, the benefits to the CISG as well as concerns to the CISG from legal practitioners. They also discuss the neutrality of the provisions of the CISG, and whether legal education is moving along with developments in the legal profession. Ingeborg Schwenzer is Professor of Private and Comparative Law at the University of Basel, Dean Swiss International Law School , and Adjunct Professor at City University Hong Kong and Griffith University, Brisbane. She is Director of the Global Sales Law project, and chair of the CISG Advisory Council. She is author of the forthcoming Fourth Edition of Schlechtriem & Schwenzer: Commentary on the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods. Florence Jaeger, MLaw is assistant to Prof Ingeborg Schwenzer. © Oxford University Press