Logical Structure of Contract Law System - For Constructing a Knowledge Base of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods -

The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods ("CISG" or "Convention") is a multilateral treaty that governs the rights and obligations of parties to international sales contracts. The CISG is designed to foster international trade by making it easier and more economical to buy and sell raw materials, commodities and manufactured goods in transnational commerce through a unified legal approach. The Convention is an international commercial legal code. According to a leading CISG scholar, the jobs of the Uniform Commercial Code ("UCC") and the CISG "are substantially the same. Both were designed to reduce the misunderstandings and controversies that can arise when one law governs the seller and a different law the buyer. They do the job in different areas: The UCC is designed to avoid the modest differences among the domestic laws of our fifty states, while the CISG is designed to overcome differences among the laws of the countries of the world". J. Honnold, "The Sales Convention: From Idea to Practice", 17 J. Law and Commerce 181 (1998).