UNILEX
The UNILEX database is administered by the Center for Comparative and Foreign Law Studies, which is related to UNIDROIT . Since 1994 court decisions dealing with the CISG (Vienna UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods) or the UNIDROIT principles have been collected and published there. A bibliography for the two instruments is also maintained.
The database contains 717 decisions on the CISG and 137 on the UNIDROIT principles (as of March 12, 2007). The decisions are categorized by date as well as by court or arbitral tribunal and the respectively applied articles of the UNIDROIT principles. For each decision there is a list of keywords and a more or less detailed summary. In some cases, the original text of the decision can be called up either completely or more frequently in excerpts. If the respective decision has been published, the source is given. In the case of arbitration awards in particular, however, there is often no source information at all or only information about which person contributed to the summary of the decision. In addition, there is the possibility to provide a list of decisions by state courts as well as arbitration tribunals for each article, whereby the respective number of decisions is always listed.
However, this function is only suitable to a limited extent for statistical evaluations, since the figures are usually incorrect due to multiple answers. Comparable databases on international trade law are CLOUT and TLDB, although their focus is not on the UNIDROIT principles.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Herber, RIW 1995, 502, 504; Liguori, ZEuP 1996, 600, 606.
- ↑ http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/case_law.html ; on this: Herber, RIW 1995, 502, 503.
- ↑ http://www.tldb.de ; on this: Berger, RIW 2002, 256, 258.