The Draft Common European Sales Law and its interaction with English and German Law

The European Commission released its Proposal for a Regulation on a Common European Sales Law (CESL) on 11 October 2011. The proposal is the culmination of a series of documents aimed at harmonising contract law across the European Union and would, if enacted, enable parties to sales contracts to select CESL as the law governing their relationship. This project seeks to examine how the provisions of the CESL would interact with English and German law and also draws on the provisions of the key predecessor document, the academic draft known as the Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR).

38 German and English academics are working in bilingual teams on various issues across 24 chapters, including Drafting and Interpretation, Conclusion of Contract, Rights to Withdraw, Termination and Damages, Unfair Competition Law and Jurisdiction and Choice of Law.

The project is funded jointly by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) (DFG). The research output will be published by Oxford University Press.

•          Gerhard Dannemann ( Berlin)
•          Stefan Vogenauer (Oxford)
•          Simon Whittaker (Oxford)
•          Karl Riesenhuber (Bochum)
•          Mark Freedland (Oxford)
•          Matthias Lehmann (Halle-Wittenberg)
•          Geraint Howells (Manchester)
•          Bevan Marten (Wellington)
•          Wolfgang Wurmnest (Hanover)
•         Christian Twigg-Flesner (Hull)
•          Kasper Steensgaard (Århus)
•          Caroline Harvey (Oxford)
•          Michael Schillig (London)
•          Jonathan Morgan (Cambridge)
•          Reiner Schulze (Münster)
•          Gerard McMeel (Bristol)
•          Christoph Grigoleit (Munich)
•          John Cartwright (Oxford)
•          Martin Schmidt-Kessel (Bayreuth)
•          Lucinda Miller (UCL)
•          Phillip Hellwege (Augsburg)
•          Thomas Krebs (Oxford)
•          Robert Freitag (Erlangen)
•          Andrew Burrows (Oxford)
•          Christoph Busch (Osnabrück)
•          Hugh Beale (Warwick)
•          Georg Ringe (Oxford)
•          Ewan McKendrick (Oxford)
•          Hannes Unberath (Bayreuth)
•          Christopher Schuller (Berlin)
•          Alexander Zenefels (Bayreuth)
•          Hector MacQueen (Edinburgh)
•          Barbara Dauner-Lieb (Cologne)
•          Mindy Chen-Wishart (Oxford)
•          Ulrich Magnus (Hamburg)
•          James Devenney (Durham)
•          Thomas Pfeiffer (Heidelberg)
•          Peter Tettinger (Cologne)