ABSTRACT
This important journal has been launched at an auspicious time and place. The time is right: the importance and feasibility of uniform law for international trade have been established. Five years have passed since Australia implemented the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) Ð the most basic of the uniform laws prepared by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). The Sales Convention (CISG) has already been implemented by 38 countries, with adherents from each economic and legal system of the world. This is also the right place for this journal. The reasons include AustraliaÕs many-faceted leadership in developing uniform law and the scholarly support provided by the University of Queensland Law Faculty.
