【正文】 scribe shortly), we are seeing ever greater levels of transparency. When such issues have involved Chinese products, how have the issues been handled when they have been the subject of CIETAC arbitration proceedings? For interesting insights, the Flanges cases of 29 March 1999 and 30 March 1999 appear most illuminating. Fulltext translations of these cases are presented at: ? and ? These are meticulously reasoned opinions. They are remended reading as illustrations of the extent to which arbitrators have sought to balance the interests of buyer and seller in a fair and judicious manner. The question is what such reasoned opinions portend for the future. A most interesting trillion dollar question is ―to what extent can a uniform international contracting regime designed for traders raise expectations and eventually improve the reality of the rule of law in other sectors?‖ I for one applaud the extent to which reliance on principles of uniform international sales law has caught on in the People‘s Republic of China and I am cautiously optimistic about the role that positive experience with mercial arbitration can play in fostering a more widespread system of the rule of law. 1980 年《聯(lián)合國國際貨物銷售合同公約》（ CISG）在成員國的適用與解釋 國際研討會論文集 4 CELEBRATING AND RESEARCHING THE CISG PROGRESS IN THE RULE OF LAW IN THE PRC Albert H. Kritzer October 13, 2021 Case Law from China and from Other Countries Arbitral Awards vs. Court Decisions History of Arbitration in China Case Law Reporting The Rule of Law In China I Have a Vision The Proper Setting for Uniform International Sales Law The Pace Institute of International Commercial Law has sought to identify and share with the world trade munity as much information as we can obtain on court and arbitral interpretations of case law on the CISG from China and from other countries of the world on our Inter database The reason for this sharing is to enable the establishment of an autonomous body of CISG case law. The database allows practitioners, arbitrators, jurists and scholars: To find and understand the allimportant cases from around the world。TRADERS, LAWYERS AND THE RULE OF LAW 1 TRADERS, LAWYERS AND THE RULE OF LAW Mark R. Shulman* International Seminar on Application and Interpretation of CISG in Member States Oct. 13, 2021 Wuhan University, China. Courtesy of my fouryear old niece Camilla, I can tell you that Dora the Explorer is an adorable cartoon character whose likeness has been pasted on children‘s lunchboxes, pajamas, and birthday party decorations. More menacingly, an action figure produced in China is also adorned with her face – unfortunately applied with lead paint. This story is terrifying. Toddlers put everything in their mouths – let alone cute dolls. Like those cats and dogs that consumed the tainted pet food and the Panamanians who brushed their teeth with toothpaste laced with diethylene glycol, American children are at real risk of being poisoned. Fortunately the toy pany in question and retailers have worked effectively to recall the dolls in question, along with millions of other toys that may pose serious health threats. But there is also good news. Effective legal systems are containing the damage that Dora inflicted on global trade and the economies that rely on it (which is to say, almost everyone). Since 1988, the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods (the ―CISG‖) has provided a global sales law that governs disputes between buyers and sellers. Because the China and the US are parties to the CISG, American toy panies are assured that their claims for damages against Chinese manufacturers can be governed by a fair body of law. The CISG provides traders with much of what they are looking for in a legal system: Traders naturally have high expectations for the rule of law insofar as it regulates their merce. They expect to enjoy: right to contract。 knowable rules governing contracts (including knowing what the rules are generally, applicability of those rules to their trade across borders, cultures, legal systems, and ease of knowing them because they reflect one clearly articulated set of rules is preferable, they are slow to change but they do change as necessary to respond to changed circumstances, and that they include mechanisms for clarifying ambiguity). Traders further expect relative inviolability of contracts and dispute mechanisms that are understandable, reliable, and transparent. Finally, they expect enforcement that is reliable, efficient, and relatively quick. Over the past fifteen years, Pace Law School‘s Institute of International Commercial Law has collected arbitral and judicial opinions interpreting the CISG. At this point, we have assembled over 2,000 cases from countries representing threequarters of the world‘s trade in goods. By collecting, analyzing and translating these cases, we have learned many lessons about the state of trade and the law that regulates it. Most notably, while China is not generally known for its exemplary adherence to international standards for the rule of law, it is the world‘s leading jurisdiction in terms of open * Mark R. Shulman is an adjunct professor and Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs and International Affiliations at Pace University School of Law in White Plains, NY. Please address all inquiries to . 169。 To use the CISG as uniform law free from any one legal system, to enable it to be applied more uniformly. These cases are the key to the practical application of the CISG. By influencing each other, the cases are also the key to autonomous development of the interpretation of the CISG. China is influential in this development. Case law from China and other countries China is a hugely important contributor to