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Common European Sales Law

Name: Is "Common European Sales Law" worth it? — Penny's verdict
Item: Common European Sales Law
Rating: 95
Author: The Review Group

Reiner Schulze · 2012

95/100

👍 Worth It

Reiner Schulze assembled a credible team of European private law scholars for this article-by-article commentary on the proposed Common European Sales Law, and the Oxford-style treatment is rigorous and thorough. For the narrow window in which the CESL was a live proposal, this would have been essential reading for practitioners and academics tracking EU contract law harmonization. The complication is significant: the European Commission withdrew the CESL proposal in 2014, which means this commentary now addresses a legal framework that was never adopted and no longer exists as a policy matter. Its value today is primarily historical — documenting what was debated and why — rather than practical. Legal historians and comparative law scholars may still find it useful; practicing lawyers almost certainly will not.

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