Abstract: As the list of instruments available in the international sales law market continues to grow - most recently with the addition of the proposed Common European Sales Law - the debates comparing these various instruments have proliferated in kind. On 15 June 2012, a group of academics, practitioners, and representatives from revered institutions gathered in Maastricht not only to discuss the substantive attributes of these instruments and their differences but also to debate what it actually means to choose a particular instrument over the others. Hosted by the Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI), this conference focused on the various perspectives on choice, which revealed a rather alarming disconnect between what choice means in theory for academics and what it means in 'reality' for practitioners.
European Review of Private Law