The Autonomous Network of CISG Websites
Current participants
Click below for the homepage of each website provider. For
interested participants, we can also share draft homepages of many of
the pending sites -- each primarily in the language of the host
country or region.
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Nature of the network
The foundation of the Autonomous Network of CISG Websites
is collegiality. The Internet is a very inexpensive and
effective way for us to cooperate in this manner.
This is a uniform law network. The world's uniform
international sales law belongs to each country and to all
countries. To help one another, we share experience and
lessons learned. Each national or regional website provider
designs its site to best serve traders and counsel of its
home market; together we serve the world market. The network
is synergetic -- the whole is greater than the sum of its
parts.
Sir Roger Bannister: The Four Minute Mile
"Relive one of the great moments in sports history:
Roger Bannister's classic memoir of how he became the first
to break the four-minute barrier in the mile." Franklin
Press.
Uniform law: CISG article 7(1): The
jurisconsultorium barrier
We too seek to break a barrier: a jurisconsultorium
barrier. We seek to help set in place a global jurisconsultorium
on uniform law for jurists and arbitrators of all
jurisdictions, counsel who plead before them, law students,
and scholars who comment -- to enable them to have an
improved opportunity to consider doctrine and jurisprudence
on uniform law from all jurisdictions, including
jurisdictions other than their own.
When Roger Bannister broke his barrier, others proceeded
to break this barrier in better ways than Bannister. Their
successors learn from Bannister and from them. We seek the
same. Pursuant to the mandate recited in Article 7(1) of the
CISG, we seek to help break a jurisconsultorium barrier
for an important uniform law. There are other important
uniform laws with similar mandates. The methodology we
implement together can also be applied to them. When
others do so, their achievements will delight -- as occurred
with Bannister's successors. We will learn from them. We
will improve our service to our profession and to the world
community.
We encourage scholars of all countries to join
this endeavor. We will do our best to help you enrich your
presentation by providing useful material for you to link
to, as do all of the other network sites.
Our invitation
Help traders and counsel of your country
The Autonomous Network of CISG Websites is not yet world
wide. Help make it so. For countries/languages not yet
represented, consider a comparable service for your country.
We court persons interested in uniform laws: professors,
practitioners or students. Where you do not have Internet
server capability, Pace offers to assist. Together we can
make it happen. E-mail contact:
akritzer@law.pace.edu
What is involved?
The elements of the typical network website consist of a
text of the uniform law in one's language; a bibliography of
scholarly writings on the uniform law that are of special
interest to traders and counsel of one's market, with texts
of such articles presented to the extent available; and data
on emerging case law from one's market, with links to other
network websites.
Site editors, universities, centers and law firms
who share / will share with you on the Internet
To facilitate intra-network dialogues, suggested
improvements and sharings of lessons learned, e-mail
addresses are provided for each site.
Website colleagues
Africa. The
CISG-Africa
website on the UN Sales Law <http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=582>
is edited by Prof. Siegfried Eiselen, University of South
Africa <
Eiselgts@unisa.ac.za>
and hosted at his university.
Arab States. Arab
States CISG-Middle East website <http://www.cisg.law.pace.edu/cisgarabic/index.html>.
Middle East Center for International Commercial Law. Dr.
Hossam A. El Saghir, Associate Dean for Higher Studies,
Menoufia University Faculty of Law <middleastcenter@gmail.com>.
Australia. CISG-Australia
website <http://www.business.vu.edu.au/cisg>.
Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne. Lecturer of
Law Bruno Zeller <Bruno.Zeller@vu.edu.au>.
Austria. The CISG-Austria
site <http://www.cisg.at/> is edited by Dr. Peter
Konwitschka, Rechtsanwalt <p.konwitschka@schoenherr.at>,
Schönherr Rechtsanwälte
OEG (Vienna) and Birgit Kurtz, Esq. <bkurtz@alston.com>,
Alston & Bird, LLP
(NY).
Belgium. The CISG-Belgium
site <http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/ipr/eng/cisg/index.php?language=en>
on the Uniform International Sales Law is produced and
edited at the Institute for International Trade Law of
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The members of the Institute
are Prof. Dr. Hans van Houtte, Dr. Marta Pertegás Sender,
Karen Vandekerckhome, Thalia Kruger <Thalia.Kruger@law.kuleuven.ac.be>,
Johan Verlinden, Jos Decoker, Hans Das, Bart Delmartino,
Viviane Verbist.
Brazil. CISG-Brasil website <http://www.cisg-brasil.net>. Editor-in-chief: Leandro Tripodi <Leandro@cisg-brasil.net>.
Canada. CISG-Canada
website <http://www.yorku.ca/osgoode/cisg/> CISG Canada is edited by Peter Mazzacano <pmazzacano@osgoode.yorku.ca> an LL.M. graduate student at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada.
England. Queen Mary Case Translation Programme of
the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary College,
University of London. Dr. Loukas A. Mistelis <L.Mistelis@qmw.ac.uk>.
The object of the QM programme is to expand upon the number
of full-text case translations available to all participants
in the Autonomous Network and to those who avail themselves
of the services they provide.
France. CISG-France
website <http://witz.jura.uni-sb.de/CISG>. Centre
juridique franco-allemand, Université de la Sarre. Prof.
Dr. Claude Witz, Chaire de Droit privé français <cl.witz@mx.uni-saarland.de>.
Website administration <wts@rz.uni-saarland.de>.
Germany. CISG
online website <http://www.jura.uni-freiburg.de/ipr1/cisg/title.htm>.
Institut für ausländishes und internationales Privatrecht,
Direktor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c, Peter Schlechtriem, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Freiburg. Website administration <webmaster@mail.jura.uni-freiburg.de>.
Greece. CISG-Greece
website <http://www.cisg.law.pace.edu/cisg/greek-cisg/index2.html>.
University of Athens. Dionysios Flambouras <dionysislaw@yahoo.com>.
Chair of the Board of Directors of the website: Dr. Michael
Stathopópolos, Professor of Civil Law, Athens University
(currently Minister of Justice of the Hellenic Republic).
Israel. CISG-Israel
website <http://www.biu.ac.il/law/cisg/captionEng.htm>.
Center for Commercial Law, Bar Ilan University. Dr. Arie
Reich <reicha@mail.biu.ac.il>.
Italy. Selected
Italian case law <http://soi.cnr.it/~crdcs/crdcs/case_law.htm>.
Centre for Comparative and Foreign Law Studies - Roma.
Japan. CISG-Japan
website <http://www.law.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~sono/cisg/english.htm>.
Kyushu University. Prof. Hiroo Sono <sono@juris.hokudai.ac.jp>.
Korea. CISG-Republic of Korea website <http://www.cisg.law.pace.edu/cisg/cisgsk/index.html> Editor: Danielle Choi <dchoi@law.pace.edu>
Latin America. CISG
Spain and Latin America website <http://www.uc3m.es/cisg>.
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Professora Ma
del Pilar Perales Viscasillas <pperales@der-pr.uc3m.es>.
Mexico. The CISG-Mexico
site <http://www.tij.uia.mx/academia/licenciaturas/derecho/dmi/>
is edited by Mtro. Alejandro Osuna González <alexosuna@osuna-revero.com>.
The host for the site is Universidad Iberoamericana, Plantel
Noroeste, in Tijuana, State of Baja California, Mexico.
Netherlands. The emerging CISG-Netherlands website <http://www.cisg.nl> is hosted and edited by Patrick Bout <Patrick.Bout@hypotheker.nl>.
Nordic States. CISG Nordic <http://www.cisgnordic.net> provides coverage for all five Nordic States - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This site is edited by Thomas Neumann <TNEU@asb.dk> of the Aarus School of Business.
Russia. CISG-Russia website [pending]. Moscow
State Institute of International Relations (University) of
the Russian Federation Foreign Affairs Ministry (Chair of
Private and Civil Law) and the International Law Firm
"Moscow International Center for Entrepreneurship &
Co. Prof. Alexandre Mouranov and Margaret Slavin eds. <mmcp@yukos.ru>.
Slovakia. Edited by JUDr Juraj Kotrusz <juraz.kotrusz@iceweb.sk> and JUDr Natalia Stefankova, Ph.D., the CISG-Slovakia website <http://www.cisg.sk> is sponsored by the Department of International Law and European Law at the Faculty of Law of Trnava University and the Law Firm of JUDr Pavol Gracik in Nitra.
Spain. CISG-Spain
and Latin America website <http://www.uc3m.es/cisg>.
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Professora Ma
del Pilar Perales Viscasillas <pperales@der-pr.uc3m.es>.
Switzerland. <http://www.globalsaleslaw.org/index.cfm?pageID=28>.
Edited by Prof. Ingeborg Schwenzer of the University of
Basel, CISG-online.ch is a successor to the CISG online
website of the University of Freiburg. The contact for this
site is <cisg-online@unibas.ch>.
Thailand. The CISG-Thailand website <http://www.spu.ac.th/graduate/CISG/> is hosted by Sripatum University and edited
by Dr. Jumpita Ruangvichathorn <Jumpita.Ru@spu.ac.th>.
Turkey. CISG-Turkey website <http://cisg.bilgi.edu.tr/> is hosted by Istanbul Bilgi University. The Chief-Editor is Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yeşim M. Atamer <yesima@bilgi.edu.tr> and Assistant-Editor, Başak Başoğlu, LL.M. <basak.basoglu@bilgi.edu.tr>.
United States. Pace
cisgw3 website <http://www.cisg.law.pace.edu>.
Institute of International Commercial Law, Pace University
School of Law. Vikki Rogers <vrogers@law.pace.edu>.
