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COMPONENTS OF THE LAW OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE


THE ROLE OF STATES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE

International Organisations

The World Trade Organisation (WTO)

United Nations - General Assembly

United Nations - Security Council

The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO)

The International Labour Organisation (ILO)

The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO)

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

The World Bank

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO)

The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)

The World Health Organisation (WHO)

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

 

International institutions for the unification of law

Institut international pour l'unification du droit privé (UNIDROIT)

The Hague Conference on Private International Law

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

 

Free trade zones; customs unions; common markets

The European Union

The European Free Trade Association (EFTA)

North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA)

The MERCOSUR-network information site

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa)

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

Southern African Development Community (SADC)

The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)

 

International non-governemental Organisations

International Chamber Of Commerce (ICC)

The World Economic Forum

Comité Maritime International (IMI)

Institut de Droit International (IDI)

International Law Association (ILA)

 

THE REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE

INTERNATIONAL SALES

Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations

Database Vienna Sales Convention (Belgian Case law)

Incoterms 2000

PACE - Institute For International Commercial Law

UNILEX On CISG & UNIDROIT Principles

 

DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT

 

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF TENCHNOLOGIE

 

FOREIGN INVESTMENT

 

FINANCE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE

 

INTERNATIONAL PAYMENT

 

INTERNATIONAL PROCEDURE

1968 Brussels Convention on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters

Council Regulation of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters

Council Regulation of 29 May 2000 on insolvency proceedings

Council Regulation of 29 May 2000 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters

Council Regulation of 28 May 2001 on cooperation between the courts of the Member States in the taking of evidence in civil or commercial matters

 

 

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION

 

 

Arbitration Institutes

 

American Arbitration Association (AAA)

 

Arbitration Centre (WIPO)

 

Belgian Center for Arbitration and Mediation (CEPINA) (Belgium)

 

Indian Council of Arbitration

 

International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber

 

International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)

 

International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) (Paris, France)

 

International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA)

 

Japan Shipping Exchange (JSE)

 

Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB)

 

Lima Chamber of Commerce

 

London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)

 

Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) (The Hague, Netherlands)

 

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)

 

UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)

 

World Intellectual Property Organisation

 

 

 

Conventions and Model Laws

 

The European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration

 

The New York Convention

 

UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration

 

 

 

Arbitration procedure

 

UNCITRAL Notes on Organizing Arbitral Proceedings

 

IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration

 

 

 

National arbitration laws

 

Arbitration Act 1996 (England)

 

Arbitration Laws Worldwide

 

Belgian Arbitration Law, Judicial Code

 

Dutch Arbitration Act, Code of Civil Procedure

 

The French Arbitration Code (only in French)

 

The New German Arbitration Law

 

The Peruvian Law for Arbitration

 

The Swedish Arbitration Act of 1999

 

The Swiss Arbitration Law (French) (LDIP) (German)

 

 

 

Private websites with links on international commercial arbitration

 

"Eye on International Business Law" - Prof. Dr. Klaus Peter Berger, Center for Transnational Law (CENTRAL)

 

"International Commercial Arbitration: Locating the Resources" - Jean M. Wenger (Government Documents/Foreign & International Law Librarian at the Cook County Law Library, a practitioner's library in Chicago)

 

"International Commercial Arbitration: Resources in Print and Electronic Format" - Lyonette Louis-Jacques (Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law University of Chicago Law School, D'Angelo Law Library)

 

Lex Mercatoria

 

 

 

More links

 

The Transnational Law Database

 

Latest Developments in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADRWorld)