Related Links
Links to other databases containing information on the CISG and
international commercial law
The Autonomous Network of CISG Websites
Websites of international organizations
University international commercial law websites and programs
Regional database
A CISG domestic law comparative: the UCC
Law firm websites
Websites of international organizations
United Nations Treaty Collection
http://untreaty.un.org/English/access.asp
The UN Treaty Section announces: "This publication contains
the texts of over 34,000 bilateral and multilateral treaties in their
authentic language(s), along with a translation into English and
French, as appropriate."
For CISG data see:
http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&id=228&chapter=10&lang=en
The United Nations publication, "Multilateral Treaties
Deposited with the Secretary-General", has been available on the
Internet since 1995. The electronic version is updated once a week on
the Internet. It contains current information on the status of the
CISG and other treaties.
The UNCITRAL database
The Internet website of the United Nations Commission on
International Trade Law will include all current CISG abstracts
published by UNCITRAL. It is intended to include all language versions
of CLOUT documents. In addition, UNCITRAL plans to post on the
Internet its current documents (Reports of and to Working Groups as
well as Reports of and to the Commission), legal texts emanating from
UNCITRAL, and a selection of travaux préparatoires.
CISG Advisory Council
http://www.cisgac.com
The CISG-AC is a private initiative which aims at promoting a uniform interpretations of the CISG.
UNIDROIT on the Internet
The official Unidroit World Wide Web site, which is available in
its entirety in both English and French, may be accessed at:
http://www.unidroit.org
UNILEX on the Internet
UNILEX is based on a research project started in 1992 by the Centre
for Comparative and Foreign Studies -- a joint venture of the Italian
National Research Council, the University of Rome I "La Sapienza",
and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT).
Their "about us" page describes this project:
UNILEX is an "intelligent"
database of international case law and bibliography on the United
Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)
and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts
-- two of the most important international instruments for the
regulation of international commercial transactions.
UNILEX contains:
- detailed abstracts of the most important cases decided under
both instruments by courts and arbitral tribunals worldwide;
- the full text of each decision in its original language (when
available);
- the complete texts of the CISG and the UNIDROIT Principles;
- a status report on the state of ratifications of CISG, including
reservations and declarations by States Parties;
- a vast bibliography for each instrument.
UNILEX provides access to the
decisions and arbitral awards by:
- date;
- country or arbitral tribunal;
- article number of the instrument;
- specific issues listed under each article.
UNILEX provides access to the
bibliography by:
- author;
- article number of the instrument;
- area.
This material is in addition available in printed loose-leaf texts
marketed by Transnational Publishers, Inc., of Ardsley, New York.
There is also a portion of the UNIDROIT website devoted exclusively to
the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts. This
material may be accessed at <http://www.unidroit.org/english/principles/pr-main.htm>.
The reader is reminded that the complete version of the Unidroit
Principles contains not only the black-letter rules but also detailed
comments on each article including, where appropriate, illustrations.
This complete version of the Unidroit Principles may be ordered from
Unidroit, Via Panisperna 28, 00184 Rome, Italy, or seen on the
Internet at: <http://www.unidroit.org/english/principles/contents.htm>.
Unidroit is also in the process of setting up a Data Base on
Uniform Law (UNILAW), which is commencing to contain materials
and information relating to a number of different areas of law,
including transport law, arbitration, international finance and
commerce and cultural property. See <http://unidroit.info/program.cfm?menu=subject&file=convention&long=en>. The UNILAW data base is intended to
provide ready access by Governments, judges, arbitrators and
practising lawyers to the texts of international uniform law
instruments, the status of ratifications and reservations, case law
and bibliographical references. The data base is accessible in
English and French.
The Hague Conference on
private international law
http://www.hcch.net/e/index.html
The Hague Conference is the oldest intergovernmental organization
on private international law (First Session convened in 1893). Their
webpage describes the Conference and its activities, e.g., "The
Eighteenth Session held in October 1996 adopted the Convention on
Jurisdiction, Applicable Law . . . It was also decided to include in
the agenda for the Nineteenth Session, to be held in the year 2000,
the question of jurisdiction, and recognition and enforcement of
foreign judgments in civil and commercial matters."
The World Trade
Organization
http://www.wto.org/wto/map/sitemap.htm
The WTO website contains material on the World Trade Organization,
trade topics and resources.
World Congress of Comparative Law
Data on the 2006 proceedings of the XVIIth World Congress of Comparative Law / XCIIième Congrès de
l'Academie Internationale de Droit Comparé may be found at <http://www.law.uu.nl/aidc-utrecht-2006>
University international commercial law websites and programs
University
of Tromsø database (International Trade Law Project)
http://lexmercatoria.org
The Tromsø database is the first WWW site dedicated to a given
area of law on the Internet: international trade law and its many
ramifications. Edited by Ralph Amissah, it is an important site for
international trade law materials and links to related materials on
the "net". Like the UNCITRAL and UNIDROIT databases, it is
an especially good site to "bookmark": exploration of the
by-ways opened up by its links opens up much information relevant to
contracts governed by the CISG. "If I only had one place to go
for access to the full-text of major trade related agreements, this
would be it." Marci Hoffman (citation to her University of
Minnesota website provided below.)
Guide to
International Trade Law Sources on the Internet
http://www.llrx.com/features/trade.htm
Edited by Marci Hoffman of the University of Minnesota Law Library,
this website accesses research guides, bibliographies, and collections
of links to material on many facets of international trade law.
Eye
on International Business Law
http://www.laweye.de/
Maintained by Willem C. Vis Mooter 1997/1998 Guido Carl Zoellner
under Chair Prof. Klaus Peter Berger, Center for Transnational law (CENTRAL), Köln, Germany, this website has
sections on International trade law: electronic commerce,
intellectual property; International commercial arbitration:
acts and conventions, courts, intitutions and rules, further
resources; Private international law: general sources, Vienna
Sales Convention, various national laws, comparative law; Further
legal sites: Public International Law, International
organizations, Institutes and associations, miscellaneous; International
law guides; Further sites of interest: Internet search,
students' interest
Law and Politics - Foreign and
International Law, International Trade
http://www.lpig.org
The International & Foreign Law page of the Law and Politics:
Internet Guide of the University of Texas, another participant in Pace's
annual Moot on the CISG and International Commercial Arbitration,
is another good site to consult for links to relevant data
The Trans-Lex Principles
http://www.tldb.net/browse.php
The Trans-Lex Principles are the successor of the "Transnational Law Digest & Bibliography (Tldb), operated by CENTRAL of the University of Cologne from October 2001 until March 2009. In addition to a helpful bibliography, "[f]or more than 120 principles and rules of transnational law, like 'venire contra factum proprium', 'duty to mitigate', 'compensation for expropriation', the Trans-Lex Principles provide the user with their black letter text and comprehensive references taken from international arbitral awards, domestic statutes, international conventions, standard contract forms, trade practices and usages, other sample clauses and academic sources. All of these sources are, as far as possible, presented in full text versions."
See also:
The University Law Review Project and Coalition of Online Journals.
The Project and Coalition access, inter alia, FindLaw
("Internet legal resources"); Jurist
("the law professors' network"); Legal
information Institute at Cornell; Richmond
Journal of Law & Technology (sites and law journals on the
Internet); and Australasian Legal
Information Institute. These websites are broader than
International Law/International Commercial Law, but each contains
materials on the subject. For another helpful collection of links to
international law sites, go to the Guide
to Foreign and International Legal Databases of the Law Library of New
York University School of Law.
Transnational
Law Links by Luke Nottage and Hiroo Sono (published by Kyushu
University Law Faculty, Japan), a collection of bookmarks for websites
accumulated over the years (in Japanese, * especially in English, and
sometimes in German).
Arbitration and the CISG often go hand in hand: the
typical negotiated international sales contract will likely contain an
arbitration clause. For data on: International commercial arbitration
bibliographies, research guides, and background sources; Major
treatises, casebooks, practice guides, and looseleaf services on the
subject; International arbitration journals and newsletters, including
arbitration journal indexes; International arbitration rules,
statutes, model laws and conventions; International arbitration courts
and organizations; Internet resources on arbitration material,
websites and electronic discussion groups, go
to International Commercial Arbitration: Resources in Print and
Electronic Format [an excellent compendium maintained by Lyonette
Louis-Jacques, Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in
Law, University of Chicago Law School]
For another helpful, comprehensive international commercial
arbitration resource, go to International ADR, an electronic forum
designed to provide information on the principal aspects of
international mediation and arbitration: http://www.INTERNATIONALADR.com
Institute of International Commercial Law and Dispute Resolution Summer Program in Croatia
Click here for brochure on the Program
This four-week, five-credit program, taught by leaders in the field, provides a broad
introduction to international business transactions, followed by a focused examination of the
law governing international sales of goods and international commercial arbitration. The
program also highlights a number of key legal instruments arising out of the work of
UNCITRAL. The first three weeks of doctrinal instruction are further enhanced by a final
week of skills training applying students’ newly acquired legal expertise to a simulated dispute
arising out of an international sale of goods and subject to arbitration. The Institute offers
focused and innovative legal educational training concentrating on a timely and exciting area
of law.
Regional database
National Law
Center for Inter-American Free Trade (The InterAm database)
http://www.natlaw.com
The InterAm database, maintained by the National Law Center for
Inter-American Free Trade contains legislative materials from various
Latin American countries, including access to Mexican legislation and
the Mexican Diario Oficial. The database also maintains an extensive
collection of links to other legal information resources relating to
trade and the Americas.
See also the website of the Organization of American States for an
extensive collection of Texts of Agreements - Trade that impact upon
the Americas: http://www.sice.oas.org/tradee.asp
A CISG domestic comparative: the UCC
Legal
Information Institute (Cornell Law School)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/overview.html
U.S. persons should be aware that where the CISG applies, it
replaces the greater part of Article 2 of the U.S. Uniform Commercial
Code. For comparative purposes, the text of Article 2 of this Code may
be accessed by clicking to the above hypertext link.
Law firm databases
The Lex Mundi
database
http://www.hg.org
The "Hieros Gamos" website of Lex Mundi contains
three sections: HG I consists of lists to all known organizations
related directly or indirectly to law regardless of whether they
currently are on the Internet; HG II contains over 200 comprehensive
practice areas organized to facilitate access; HG III leads to
resources such as journals, employment, law study and to the card
catalogues to 100 law schools.
