'Saidov has produced a detailed and highly readable text that considers in turn the methods of limiting damages, the determination of loss and the calculation of damages. It will doubtless become a first point of reference for academics and practitioners alike.'
Martin J Doris, Edinburgh Law Review

The second edition of this internationally acclaimed book explores damages for breach of an international sales contract, one of the most important and frequently invoked remedies. The focus is on the international contract law instruments such as the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts and the Principles of European Contract Law.

The book draws on the experience of some major legal systems and engages with legal scholarship on the international instruments and on contract damages, providing the most comprehensive, in-depth and thorough examination of damages under the instruments to date. The second edition is updated, reflecting the latest developments in legal thinking on contract damages. It incorporates around 60 new cases and now covers more than 370 cases decided by courts and arbitration tribunals from around the world. The new edition is substantially revised, including new commentary on damages for a documentary breach.

Truly international in spirit, this book is analytically rigorous and practically oriented, offering distinctive analyses of, and solutions to, some of the most challenging problems surrounding contract damages.

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Djakhongir Saidov is Professor of Commercial Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, UK, a Consultant to Helmsman LLC, Advocates & Solicitors, Singapore, and an Academic Fellow at the Centre for Maritime Law at the National University of Singapore.

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**Interim Table of Contents
Preface
Table of cases

1. INTRODUCTION
2. General
3. The CISG
4. The UPICC
5. The PECL
6. Scope and structure of the book

I General Part

2. GENERAL PART OF THE LAW OF DAMAGES

1. Definition and purpose of damages

2. Basis for the right to claim damages

3. Basic measure of damages

4. The idea of limiting damages

5. CATEGORIES OF LOSS

6. General

7. Expenditure wasted as a result of the breach

8. Additional expenditure incurred as a result of the breach

9. Damage to the 'performance interest'

10. Loss caused by the change in the value of currency

11. Damage to reputation and goodwill

12. Loss of profit

13. Loss of a chance

14. Future losses

15. Damages for a Documentary Breach

II Methods of Limiting Damages

4. CAUSATION

1. General

2. Factual and legal causation

3. Multiple sufficient causation

4. Hypothetical alternative causation

5. Intervening cause

6. Causation and calculation

7. Injured party's contribution to the other party's failure to perform

8. FORESEEABILITY

9. General

10. The foreseeability test

11. Foreseeability of what?

12. Time of foreseeability and degree of probability

13. Concluding remarks

14. MITIGATION

15. General

16. Scope of the mitigation rule

17. Reasonable measures

18. Mitigation and events subsequent to the breach

19. The recoverability of costs incurred in mitigating loss

20. Burden of proof

III Proof of Loss and Calculation of Damages

7. STANDARDS OF PROVING LOSS AND DETERMINING THE AMOUNT OF DAMAGES

1. General

2. The standard of 'reasonable certainty'

3. Judicial discretion

4. Standards of proving losses and determining the amount of damages under the CISG

5. Loss of a chance and judicial discretion

6. CALCULATION OF DAMAGES (PART I)

7. General

8. Calculation: the avoidance of the contract

9. Non-conforming goods

10. Delay in delivery

11. Other cases: lost profits

12. CALCULATION OF DAMAGES (PART II)

13. General

14. Anticipatory breach

15. Long-term contracts

16. Currency losses

17. Loss of a chance

18. Damage to business reputation and goodwill

19. Currency of damages

Bibliography
Index