Vienna international sales convention (CISG)

Africa publications

Allott Antony The Unification of Laws in Africa 1968 (16) American Journal of Comparative Law 51-87

Anyamele Uche The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods: A Proposal for Nigeria (Dissertation University of Durham)
Full text: http://iicl.law.pace.edu/cisg/scholarly-writings/united-nations-convention-contracts-international-sale-goods-proposal

Barton GA The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1985 (18) Comparative and International Law Journal of South Africa 21-35

Bengone Ella N The Vienna Sales Convention and Africa 2010 (5) Asian Business Lawyer 95-114

Castellani Luca G Promoting the Adoption of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods CISG 2009 (13) Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law & Arbitration 241-248
Full text: http://iicl.law.pace.edu/cisg/scholarly-writings/promoting-adoption-united-nations-convention-contracts-international-sale

CISG-AC Opinion No 13 Inclusion of Standard Terms under the CISG Rapporteur: Professor Sieg Eiselen College of Law University of South Africa Pretoria South Africa Adopted by the CISG Advisory Council following its 17th meeting in Villanova Pennsylvania USA on 20 January 2013
Full text: http://iicl.law.pace.edu/cisg/scholarly-writings/cisg-advisory-council-opinion-no-13-inclusion-standard-terms-under-cisg

Coetzee Juana and De Gama Mustaqeem Harmonisation of Sales Law: An International and Regional Perspective 2006 (10) Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law & Arbitration 15-26
Full text: http://iicl.law.pace.edu/cisg/scholarly-writings/harmonisation-sales-law-international-and-regional-perspective

Coetzee Juana CISG and regional sales law : friends or foes? 2015 Journal of Law Society and Development 2 29-47

Coetzee Juana INCOTERMS® 2010 : codified mercantile custom or standard contract terms? 2012 (23) Stellenbosch Law Review 23 564-582

Date-Bah Samuel K The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, 1980: Overview and Selective Commentary, 1979 (11) Ghana Law Review 50-67

Date-Bah Samuel K Problems of the Unification of International Sales Law from the Standpoint of Developing Countries, in: Problems of Unification 1980 (7) Digest of Commercial Law 39-52

Date-Bah Samuel K The Convention on the International Sale of Goods from the Perspective of the Developing Countries in La Vendita Internazionale 1981 (Milan Giuffrè 23-38

Date-Bah Samuel K Comments on Article 26 CISG [Notice of Avoidance] in Bianca CM and-Bonell MJ (eds) Commentary on the International Sales Law 1987 (Giuffrè Milan 222-225

Date-Bah Samuel K Comments on Article 27 CISG ["Dispatch" Principle] in Bianca CM and-Bonell MJ (eds) Commentary on the International Sales Law 1987 (Giuffrè Milan 232-231

Date-Bah Samuel K Comments on Article 29 CISG [Modification of Contract] in Bianca CM and-Bonell MJ (eds) Commentary on the International Sales Law 1987 240-244

Date-Bah Samuel K Comments on Article 41 CISG [Third Party Claims in general] in Bianca CM and-Bonell MJ (eds) Commentary on the International Sales Law 1987  316-318

Date-Bah Samuel K Comments on Article 42 CISG [Intellectual Property] in Bianca CM and-Bonell MJ (eds) Commentary on the International Sales Law 1987 319-321

Date-Bah Samuel K Vienna Sales Convention 1980 - developing countries' perspectives in Penna LR (ed) Current Developments in International Transfers of Goods and Services (6th Singapore Conference on International Business Law, September 1992) 1994 (Singapore: Butterworths Asia) 87-102

Date-Bah Samuel K United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods: An overview and consideration of some practical issues relating to it in UNCITRAL (ed) Uniform Commercial Law in the Twenty-First Century. Proceedings of the Congress of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (New York 18-22 May 1992) 1995 (New York United Nations) 69-77

Date-Bah Samuel K The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts in West and Central Africa-Reflections on the OHADA Project from the Perspective of a Common Lawyer from West Africa 2004 Uniform Law Review 269-273

Dateh-Bah Samuel K The Preliminary Draft OHADA Uniform Act on Contract Law as seen by a Common Law Lawyer (Acts of the Colloquium in Burkina Faso 15-17 November 2007) 2008 (13) Uniform Law Review 217 et seq.

Eiselen Sieg Electronic commerce and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods CISG (1980) 1999 (6) EDI Law Review 1999 21-46
Full text: http://iicl.law.pace.edu/cisg/scholarly-writings/electronic-commerce-and-un-convention-contracts-international-sale-goods

Eiselen Sieg Adoption of the Vienna Convention for the International Sale of Goods The CISG in South Africa 1999 (116) South African Law Journal 323-370
Full text: http://www.cisg.law.pace.edu/cisg/biblio/eiselen.html

Eiselen Sieg Unresolved damages issues of the CISG: a comparative analysis 2005 (38) Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa 32-46
Full text: http://iicl.law.pace.edu/cisg/scholarly-writings/unresolved-damages-issues-cisg-comparative-analysis

Eiselen Sieg The UNECIC : international trade in the digital era 2006 Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal 1-49

Eiselen Sieg and Bergenthal Sebastian The Battle of Forms: A Comparative Analysis 2006 (39) Comparative and International Law Journal of South Africa 214-240

Eiselen Sieg Adopting the Vienna Sales Convention : reflections eight years down the Line 2007 (19) SA Mercantile Law Journal = SA Tydskrif vir Handelsreg 14-25

Eiselen Sieg The requirements for the inclusion of standard terms in international sales contracts 2011 (14) Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal 14 2-31

El-Saghir Hossam A "The Interpretation of the CISG in the Arab World" (2008)

El-Saghir Hossam A  The Interpretation of the CISG in the Arab World in Janssen A and Meyer O (eds) CISG Methodology 2009 (Selier Munich) 355-374
http://www.cisg.law.pace.edu/cisg/biblio/el-saghir.html

El-Saghir Hossam A Identification of errors in authentic Arab text of CISG - in Arabic and English 2000 CISG-Middle East database http://www.cisg.law.pace.edu/cisgarabic/index.html

El-Saghir Hossam A  Fundamental breach: Remarks on the manner in which the Principles of European Contract Law may be used to interpret or supplement Article 25 CISG 2000
http://www.cisg.law.pace.edu/cisg/text/peclcomp25.html#er

El-Saghir Hossam A 2006. Fundamental breach of contract: Remarks on the manner in which the Principles of European Contract Law may be used to interpret or supplement Art. 25 of the CISG in Felemegas J (ed) An International Approach to the Interpretation of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1980) as Uniform Sales Law 2006 (Cambridge University Press 335-339

Han Shiyuan Force majeure change of circumstances and termination of contract 2016 (3) Journal of Law Society and Development 31-44

Janse van Vuuren Elbi Termination of International Commercial Contracts for Breach of Contract: The Provisions of [South African Contract Law U.S Contract Law German Contract Law and] the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts 1998 (15) Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law 1998 583-634
Full text: http://iicl.law.pace.edu/cisg/scholarly-writings/termination-international-commercial-contracts-breach-contract-provisions

Kahindo Nguru Aristide International Sales Contracts in Congolese Law: A Comparative Analysis 2014 (Thesis University of South Africa LLD) 1-603

Lehman Karin The United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods: Should South Africa Accede? 2006 (18) South African Mercantile Law Journal 317-328

Malahlela Celia Should South Africa Ratify the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods? 2014 (Thesis University of Pretoria)

Marxen Karl The cycle of harmonisation-from domestic laws to the CISG and back? South African Law Journal 132 547-565 2015

Matinyenya Patience South Africa’s Non-Ratification of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods CISG  Wisdom or Folly Considering the Effect of the Status Quo on International Trade 2011 (Thesis)
Full text: http://iicl.law.pace.edu/cisg/bibliography/south-africa%E2%80%99s-non-ratification-united-nations-convention-contracts-international

Moore Dickerson Claire Harmonizing Business Laws in Africa: OHADA Calls the Tune 2005 (44) Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 17-73

Neels Jan L and Fredericks Eesa A Revision of the Rome Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations 1980 : perspectives from international commercial and financial law 2006 Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg 121-134

Ng'ong'ola Clement The Vienna Sales Convention of 1980 in the Southern Africa Legal Environment: Formation of a Contract of Sale 1992 (4) African Journal of International and Comparative Law 835-854

Ng'ong'ola Clement The Vienna Sales Convention of 1980 and Sales Law of Southern Africa 1995 (7) African Journal of International Law/Revue africaine de droit international et compare 227-256

Nsie Etienne La formation du contrat de vente commerciale en Afrique Analyse du Titre II du Livre V de l'Acte uniforme de l'OHADA relatif au droit commercial general (The Formation of the Commercial Sales Contract in Africa Analysis of Book V Chapter II of the OHADA Uniform Act on General Commercial Law) 1999 Revue de droit des pays d'Afrique Law Review of the African Countries 5-19

Nwekwo Tochukwu Godson A Critical Analysis of the CISG in the Harmonization and Unification of International Trade Law in Africa-Nigeria 2015 (Thesis Girne American University; Babcock University) 1-77
Full text: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2565013

Pichonnaz Pascal The evolving function of interpellatio in case of default 2010 (16) Fundamina : A Journal of Legal History 274-287

Rabinowitz Daniel Implications of South Africa's Accession to the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1993 (30) Lex Mundi World Reports 1-17

Schlemmer EC Handbuch Des Internationalen Warenkaufs Un-Kaufrecht Cisg  U Verweyen V Foerster and O Toufar : book review 2007 Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg 839-840 2007

Schlemmer EC Tool-box des Internationalen Warenkaufs UN-Kaufrecht CISG  U Verweyen V Foerster O Toufar : book review 2008 Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg 172-175 2008

Schroeter Ulrich G Das Einheitliche Kaufrecht der Afrikanischen OHADA-Staaten im Vergleich zum UN-Kaufrecht (The Uniform Sales Law of the African OHADA States in Comparison to the UN Sales Law) 2001 Recht in Africa 163-176
Full text: http://www.cisg.law.pace.edu/cisg/biblio/schroeter.html

Viejobueno Sonia Progress through compromise: the 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1995 (28) Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa 28 200-227

Wethmar-Lemmer Marlene The debate on the existence of the lex mercatoria 2006 Codicillus 23-38

Wethmar-Lemmer Marlene When could a South African court be expected to apply the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)? 2008 De Jure 419-428

Wethmar-Lemmer Marlene The Impact of the Article 95 Reservation on the Sphere of Application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) 2010 De Jure 43, 362

Wethmar-Lemmer Marlene Vienna Sale Convention and party autonomy 2011 Tydskrif vir die Sjuid-Afrikaanse Reg 255-267

Wethmar-Lemmer Marlene Specific performance as a remedy in international sales contracts 2012 Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg 700-713

Wethmar-Lemmer Marlene The Vienna Sales Convention and gap-filling 2012 Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg 274-300 2012 

Wethmar-Lemmer Marlene The Vienna Sales Convention and gap-filling 2012 Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg 274-300

Wethmar-Lemmer Marlene Regional harmonisation of international sales law via accession to the CISG and the importance of uniform interpretation of the CISG 2014 (47) De Jure 298-309

Wethmar-Lemmer Marlene The important role of private international law in harmonising international sales law 2014 (26) SA Mercantile Law Journal 93-109

Wethmar-Lemmer Marlene The Vienna Sales Convention and private international law 2015 (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing)

Wethmar-Lemmer Marlene The Vienna Sales Convention and private international law 2016 Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg 255-267

Wethmar-Lemmer Marlene Applying the CISG via the rules of private international law: Articles 1 (1)(b) and 95 of the CISG-analysing CISG Advisory Council Opinion 15  2016 De Jure 58-73

Williams Joyce Increasing Private Sector Participation in Ghana Through the Adoption and Implementation of the CISG 2012 (4) Africa Law Today 1-3
Full text: http://iicl.law.pace.edu/cisg/bibliography/increasing-private-sector-participation-ghana-through-adoption-and-implementation

Zeller Bruno Regional harmonisation of contract law-is it feasible? 2016 (3) Journal of Law Society and Development 85-98

Zeller Bruno The parol evidence rule and the CISG-a comparative analysis 2003 36 Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa 308-324

Zeller Bruno The significance of the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods for the harmonisation and transplantation of international commercial law 2006 (17) Stellenbosch Law Review 466-481

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