International economic law sources

International economic law sources

Some of these sources pertain specifically to international economic law. Others do not, but offer sufficient general applicability or overlap to warrant attention.

Research guides

ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law: International Economic Law. One of a series of guides to commercial online and Internet sources in international law, this is a fine effort whose organization recognizes and distinguishes aspects of international economic law such as International trade law , international financial law, and regional economic integration. It also supplies helpful guidance on locating relevant print literature.

Researching International Economic Law on the Internet. The Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University Law Center produces this expert and well-designed site.

Claire M. Germain, Germain’s transnational research: A guide for attorneys (1991 – ) [LAW/FOREIGN-INTL REF K85.G47 1991]. This loose-leaf service is the premier, all-purpose print guide to foreign and international law research. It includes a subject section (Chapter IV), which favors topics falling within international economic law, such as banking, business organizations, Commercial law , financial law, and investments. Its Foreign Law coverage (Chapter V) is limited to Western European countries.

Accidental tourist on the new frontier: An introductory guide to global Legal Research (Jeanne Rehberg & Radu D. Popa, eds., 1998) [LAW/RESERVES K85.A27 1998]. Every chapter in this much needed addition to the research literature, with the possible exception of one or two, supplies essential background reading for research in international economic law. Specific chapters are recommended below.

Gateways

Lex Mercatoria . Describes itself as “an (international | transnational) Commercial law & e-commerce infrastructure monitor.” It is the major gateway in this area, classifying its links as follows: subject areas, instruments, e-commerce, and organizations. Three universities — the University of Tromsภand the University of Oslo in Norway, and the Institute of International Commercial Law at Pace University School of Law — along with the Australasian Legal Information Institute, cooperate on this project.

International Economic Law Web Resources. A “no-frills”list of links, using substantially the same subject division as the ASIL guide, and maintained by the ASIL International Economic Law Group.

Eye on International Business Law. Focuses on international trade and commercial law, International commercial arbitration , and Private International Law . Based at the University of Muenster, this site, “[a]iming at navigability . . . endeavours to focus on the most instructive, reliable, and current sources available on the Internet.”

Institute of European and International Economic Law. A few useful links and a European perspective from the University of Berne, Switzerland. Except for a welcome page in English, this site is in German.

Document collections

Basic documents of international economic law (Stephen Zamora & Ronald A. Brand, eds.,1990) [LAW/FOREIGN-INTL REF JX1252.B37 1990]. A two-volume collection of Treaties and other instruments relating to private trade transactions and international intergovernmental regulation. Each document is prefaced by an introduction and a bibliography. Like other “basic documents”collections, this set offers a convenient “one-stop”source of primary materials, enhanced by the expertise of the contributors in both their selection of, and commentary on, the documents. It may also be used to identify the official source of a document, which is given at the beginning of each document. An electronic version is available on Lexis : INTLAW; BDIEL, which is especially useful for keyword searching in lieu of an index.

WESTLAW: IEL (International Economic Law Documents). The database scope note states that “[t]he IEL database is a project of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Interest Group on International Economic Law and contains documents selected for the database by the editors,”who are the editors, and some of the contributors, associated with Basic documents of international law. Since the IEL editors select new documents for the database on an ongoing basis, use IEL, or Lexis : INTLAW; BDIEL, to update the print source.

International economic law: Basic documents (Philip Kunig, Niels Lau & Werner Meng, eds., 1989) [LAW/FOREIGN-INTL REF K3820.A35I58 1989]. According to the editors, this one-volume collection “is oriented towards relevance to decision-makers on the international and national levels . . . The selection took a universal, not a national or regional perspective. Therefore the volume includes mainly multilateral international Treaties , but also some decisions of International Organizations .” This source lacks the editorial enhancements of Basic documents of international economic law.

Transnational economic and monetary law: International regulation of finance and investment (Kenneth R. Simmonds & Brian H. W. Hill, eds., 1992 – ) [LAW/FOREIGN-INTL K3823.L372]. A multi-volume loose-leaf set.

Victor Essein, Research in Transnational Business Law, in Accidental tourist on the new frontier: An introductory guide to global Legal Research 207-221 (Jeanne Rehberg & Radu D. Popa, eds., 1998) [LAW/RESERVES K85.A27 1998]. Contains citations to international business law instruments. It is not, strictly speaking, a research guide.

International Legal Materials [K9.N87 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL]. A vital source of primary materials, published as a bi-monthly periodical by the American Society of International Law. It supplies a wide variety of international agreements, foreign laws, and other documents of likely interest to international law scholars and practitioners, and it does this with relative currency. Researchers will often find in ILM what they cannot find elsewhere. It is available in full-text on WESTLAW: ILM; treaties published in ILM are available on LEXIS: INTLAW; ILMTY.

Experts

ASIL International Economic Law Group. This site, which is not very active, may feature important announcements in the area of international economic law.

ASILIELG@listproc.kentlaw.edu (American Society of International Law, International Economic Law Interest Group). A mailing list for those interested in international economic law. To Subscribe , send e-mail to listproc@listproc.kentlaw.edu with only the following text in the body of the message: Subscribe asilielg Your Name.

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Commercial law, Foreign Law, International Commercial Arbitration, International Commercial Law, International Organizations, International commercial arbitration, International trade law, Legal Research, Lex Mercatoria, Lexis, List of international trade topics, Private International Law, Subscribe, Treaties.

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