Library

International Commercial Arbitration

Key Resources:

• United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sales of Goods
  • Australian Site [Source: Victoria University of Technology]
  • PACE Law School CISG Database
  • Annotated text of the CISG
• About the Willem Vis Moot
  • Willem C. Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot (Hong Kong)
    [Includes Previous Moots]
  • Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (Vienna)
    [Includes Previous Moots]
  • The Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot
• Other sites
  • JAMS: ADR Clauses, Rules and Procedures
  • Private International Commercial Law Sale of Goods [Source: LexMercatoria]
  • UNCITRAL: United Nations Commission for International Trade Law
    • Electronic Commerce
  • American Arbitration Association
  • ICC International Court of Arbitration
• Research Guides
  • ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Commercial Arbitration
  • International Commercial Arbitration: Locating the Resources
  • International Commercial Arbitration: Resources in Print and Electronic Format
• Online texts
  • Uniform Sales Law - The UN-Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods Univ. Prof. Dr. Peter Schlechtriem Published by Manz, Vienna: 1986
  • Transcript of a Workshop on the Sales Convention: Leading CISG scholars discuss Contract Formation, Validity, Excuse for Hardship, Avoidance, Nachfrist, Contract Interpretation, Parol Evidence, Analogical Application, and much more Transcribed and edited by Harry M. Flechtner
  • Report to the Uniform Law Conference of Canada on Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods Professor Jacob S. Ziegel, University of Toronto and Professor Claude Samson, Université Laval July 1981

Databases:

• AGIS [Australian law journals]
  • Example search: au="CHRISTENSEN Sharon" and contract*
    
• Legal Resource Index [International legal journals]
• Lexis.com (UK Law Reviews) [Full text journals - Example: International and Comparative Law Quarterly].
  
• Lexis.com (US & Canadian Law Reviews) [Full text US and Canadian journals]
  Example search: summary (uncitral and electronic commerce)
• ProQuest 5000 [International business journals]
• Factiva [Newspapers]
• Index to Common Law Festschriften [Index to book chapters]
• Libraries Australia (Kinetica)
• APAFT [Australian business and law journals]

Practice Questions:

1) Which library gets this journal?

Mourre A.
Application of the Vienna international sales convention in arbitration.
ICC International Court of Arbitration bulletin (Paris) 17:1:43-50, 2006.

2) Which library gets this journal?

Peacock D.
Avoidance and the notion of fundamental breach under the CISG: an English perspective.
International trade & business law annual (Coogee, Australia) 8:95-133, 2006.

3) Which library gets has this book?

Lex mercatoria : essays on international commercial law in honour of Francis Reynolds / edited by Francis D. Rose. Published: London : LLP, 2000. ISBN: 1859785433

4) Search Kinetica for books with these subject heading:

United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods

Export sales contracts

5) Search the La Trobe University Library catalogue for books with this subject heading:

United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods

Export sales contracts