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• A case caveat
• An exciting event
• A request for help

A case caveat

Some of our database case buttons and other case search engines are not now working the way they should. We have an interim solution. Because it makes sense to provide multiple paths to a destination -- belt and suspenders -- and to pay attention to in-print approaches as well as cyber-space innovations, we built a back-up. We monitor our back-up daily to keep it current and as comprehensive and accurate as we can. Our back-up is an "old fashioned" Case schedule document <http://www.cisg.law.pace.edu/cisg/text/casecit.html>.

Pending a fix of our misbehaving cyber-space case buttons and/or other case search engines, I pay special attention to Case schedule document when I research CISG jurisprudence.

• When I seek material on judicial or arbitral rulings that relate to or cite an article of the CISG, I verify my search by going to our "old fashioned" Case schedule document. I encourage you to do the same.

• Be advised that Case schedule document is not entirely old fashioned. In addition to its collection of usual in-print type material, it contains links that enable researchers to jump to cases by country and to presentations on cases of interest -- with articles of the CISG and other data listed with each case entry. And the case presentations you can jump to are getting better and better, particularly as our case translation programme progresses. Effective 15 November 2001, we have been able to integrate several hundred of these full-text case translations with our case presentations, with more translations being added each week.

An exciting new event

The Moot Alumni Association has taken on a Casenote project that will lead to more case translations. As the scope of the translation programme expands, this improves our ability to code the cases for you.

A request for help: corrective help; other help

My caveat at the outset of this page is about a "bug" or "bugs" in our case-search system that we are working to correct. There can be other inconveniences associated with our cyberspace offerings that we do not yet know about. You can help us fix them too by calling them to our attention. Use the Comments/Contributions line below for this purpose.

Also, I mention in my opening paragraph that we try to make all of our presentations as substantively accurate as we can. Even so, errors can creep into texts, particularly as massive a collection of texts as we try to offer. By calling such errors to our attention, you can help us weed them out. This is a participatory database. You help immeasurably with your substantive contributions to the contents of the database. Help us this way too.

In addition, there are instances in which there may be nothing wrong with the way we are going about our offerings. However, you are the ones who use this material; you undoubtedly have ideas as to how we can do better. We welcome such Comments/Contributions too.

Albert H. Kritzer

Pace Law School Institute of International Commercial Law - Last updated November 15, 2001

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