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Advanced Contracts Seminar

This is a guide to law library resources for students in Professor Kostritsky's Advanced Contracts Seminar; March 2022 update.

Sources for Accessing and Researching the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods

Sources for Accessing and Research the CISG

Primary Source Material:

  1. United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) – UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods website
  2. United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law – CISG Materials
  3. CISG Database at Pace School of Law’s Institute of International Law
  4. HeinOnline’s United Nations Law Collection

Secondary Sources (databases) in which to search for articles on Foreign & International Law:

  1. HeinOnline’s Law Journal Library
  2. Index to Legal Periodicals
  3. WestlawNext (International Materials)
  4. Lexis Advance (Law Reviews and Journals)

Materials in the Law Library (either print books or ebooks) concerning the CISG:

Library Catalog Search for " Contracts for the International Sale of Goods"

See also:

Am. Soc'y Int'l L., "International Sale of Goods," in Benchbook on International Law § III.C (Diane Marie Amann ed., 2014) https://www.asil.org/sites/default/files/benchbook/saleofgoods.pdf

Elizabeth D. Lauzon, Annotation, Construction and Application of United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) 200 A.L.R. Fed. 541 (Originally published in 2005)