There is no better occasion than the 25^e anniversary of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sate of Goods to examine whether and, if so, to what extent that Convention has reached its goal of unifying the law of international sale of goods. By giving an account of how that Convention has been applied in the various countries, the papers published in this book allow the reader to assess the degree of uniformity reached and, ultimately, determine how successful that Convention really is.