5.1 History of International Sale of Goods

The lex mercatoria's world — the medieval merchants' own law: the fairs' customs, the merchants' courts, the cosmopolitan usages; The nationalisation — the mercantilist era's absorption into national laws: the divergent codes (the French-and-German faces; the common law's separate path); The unification attempts — the early 20th century: the 1964 Hague Conventions (ULIS/ULF — the limited success, the few ratifications); The UNCITRAL era — the 1980 Vienna Diplomatic Conference: the CISG (United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods) — in force 1988, the states' parties grown past ninety — the unification's success story.