Books by Joseph Lookofsky

The 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) regulates the rights of buyers and sellers in international sales. The Convention is the first sales law treaty to win acceptance on a worldwide scale, and the impressive list of some 85 CISG ‘Contracting States’ already accounts for more than three-fourths of all world trade. The importance of the CISG in the international arena is underlined by thousands of reported decisions where the CISG has been held to apply, thus evidencing the conduct of countless international traders who – by default or by express choice – regularly subject their sales contracts to the Convention. The CISG has also impacted on sales legislation at national and regional (e.g., EU) levels.The CISG treaty demands an international interpretation, and this fully updated Fifth (Worldwide) Edition draws upon the full range of primary as well as secondary sources of CISG law, including worldwide case law and scholarly opinion. Concrete examples are provided throughout.With this book as their guide, lawyers and students who need to understand international sales contracts and sales contract disputes will confidently navigate topic areas such as the following:• determining when the CISG applies;• freedom of contract under Article 6;• interpretation of the Convention and of CISG contracts;• sales contract formation, validity, defenses to enforcement;• obligations of the parties, including conforming delivery and payment;• remedies for breach, including specific performance, damages and avoidance;• liability exemptions; and• key reservations under Articles 92–96.Co-published by Wolters Kluwer.

Denne bog angår den internationale privat- og procesret på formuerettens område, og gennemgår de processuelle regler om domstolenes internationale kompetence og om anerkendelse og fuldbyrdelse af udenlandske domme. Bogen gennemgår endvidere lovvalgsreglerne for aftaler, herunder løsørekøb (hvor også CISG behandles), erstatning uden for kontrakt og tingsret. Bogen omtaler desuden international voldgift og indledes med en oversigt over den internationale privatrets ”almindelige del”.Bogen henvender sig både til jurastuderende, der beskæftiger sig med international privat- og procesret på formuerettens område, og til advokater, dommere og andre, der anvender reglerne i praksis.I denne 5. udgave er der indarbejdet ny retspraksis fra danske domstole og fra EU-domstolen, der har afsagt væsentlige domme om både lovvalg efter Romkonventionen og værneting efter Bruxelles I-forordningen. Endvidere er den omarbejdede Bruxelles I-forordning, der finder anvendelse fra den 10. januar 2015, indarbejdet.

Thousands of CISG national court judgments and international arbitral awardshave been reported. This compact Convention guide takes account of many ofthese precedents (listed by origin and date in Appendix III), as well as theincreasingly abundant CISG literature (a Table of Authorities, cited in short formin footnotes, is included as Appendix IV). In this sixth edition of Understanding,numerous additional concrete illustrations help explain and clarify key CISGrules.Although CISG case law confirms that the Convention is most often interpretedand applied in a harmonious fashion, some CISG rules have generated disagreement.This edition of Understanding continues to account for such anomalies,particularly insofar as they impact merchants (and their lawyers) in the real CISGworld.

Køb omhandler dansk indenlandsk købsret, dvs. køb af løsøre i henhold til Købeloven af 1906 med senere ændringer: KBL. De første ni kapitler omfatter KBL-reglerne for civilkøb og køb mellem handlende, hvorimod forbrugerkøbets særregler drøftes i et kapitel for sig.I denne 4. udgave har forfatterne taget højde for den på retsområdet vigtigste lovgivning, retspraksis og litteratur, der er kommet siden udgivelse af bogens tredje udgave (2008).Det er fortsat tanken at give en introduktion til de køberetlige regler, der samtidig fungerer som en introduktion til nogle mere almindelige, obligationsretlige regler set i lyset af internationale påvirkninger.

Transnational Litigation and Commercial Arbitration is a case-oriented study of the key rules and procedures that regulate the resolution of commercial disputes arising in a transnational context. The study explains and compares European and American rules of private international and procedural law. Each main case is introduced both by a paradigm model, emphasizing and simplifying the key operative facts, as well as by a doctrinal presentation of the main issues and sources of American, European, or international law concerned. The court decisions themselves are all extensively edited and annotated by the authors.This 4th Edition, which has been completely revised and updated, takes account of recent developments in American law, including recent Supreme Court decisions on the exercise of juridical jurisdiction, and European law, including the Brussels I Regulation recast, effective within the European Union as of 2015.Transnational Litigation and Commercial Arbitration is suitable for use in upper-level courses in American, European, and Comparative Law. It also serves as a useful reference for practitioners.About the Authors: Joseph Lookofsky is Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Copenhagen. He is a Member of the New York State Bar and former counsel for United Artists Corporation. He holds a B.A. in Economics (Lehigh University 1967) and a J.D. (New York University School of Law 1971). He received his Danish law degrees (cand.jur. 1981 and dr.jur. 1989) from the University of Copenhagen.Ketilbjørn Hertz is Legal Advisor with the Danish Ministry of Justice. He received degrees from the University of Copenhagen, cand.jur. in 1993 and Ph.D. in law in 1998. In 2007 he completed the Cycle international court at the Ecole nationale d’administration in Strasbourg, France. He is currently (2016-2017) a Mid-Career MPA student at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.