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RESEARCHING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS

Leah Sandwell-Weiss, Reference Librarian & Professor of Practice International Business Transactions

DEFINITIONS

• Foreign Law
• The law of a single non-United States jurisdiction
• Comparative Law
• Multi-jurisdictional study of foreign laws on the same

topic

• International Law
• Rules dealing with the relations between two or more

countries, countries & individuals, & international

• rganizations

INTERNATIONAL LAW

• Public International Law:
• Law between national governments & between

governments & intergovernmental organizations

• Private International Law:
• Law regulating private relationships across national

borders, in areas such as contracts, recognition of judgements, jurisdiction, & family law

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS (IBT)

“[P]rivate business transactions that are international in character.” International when:

• “[P]arties have their places of business in different

nation-states;

• “[T]ransactions involve the movement of goods, [etc.]

across the boundaries of different nations;

• “[T]ransactions between parties of one state have a

direct effect in a different state.”

IBT TREATISES

• Daniel C.K. Chow and Thomas J. Schoenbaum,

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS: PROBLEMS, CASES,

AND MATERIALS (3d ed. 2015).

• Ralph H. Folsom, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS

2017-2018.

• Ved P. Nanda & Ralph B. Lake, THE LAW OF

TRANSNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS (2017).

• CORPORATE COUNSEL’S GUIDE TO DOCUMENTING

INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS (2017).

IBT HORNBOOKS & STUDY AIDS

• Ralph H. Folsom et al., PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL

BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS (2017).

• Ralph H. Folsom et al., INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

TRANSACTIONS IN A NUTSHELL (2016).

REFERENCE WORKS

• Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
• Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of

International Law

• ASIL Electronic Resource Guides (e-RGs),

https://www.asil.org/resources/electronic-resource- guide-erg

• Don Ford, Private International Law, e-RG,

https://www.asil.org/sites/default/files/ERG_PRIVATE_I NT.pdf

SELECTED IBT JOURNALS

• Asper Review of International Business and Trade

Law (Canada)

• Business Law International (UK):

www.ibanet.org/Publications/business_law_inter national.aspx

• Journal of International Business & Law:

www.hofstrajibl.org/articles-archive/

FINDING GUIDES FOR FOREIGN & INTERNATIONAL LAW

• FOREIGN LAW GUIDE, Marci Hoffman, Gen. Ed.
• Globalex: ww.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/
• WorldLII – International Law Library:

www.worldlii.org/int/special/ihl/

LAW LIBRARY DATABASES

• Foreign Law/European Union
• NatLaw World (National Law Center)
• Foreign & International Law Resources Database

(Hein)

• International Law
• Kluwer Law International Journal Library (Hein)

DATABASES

• CISG Database: http://iicl.law.pace.edu/cisg/cisg
• EISIL: International Economic Law:

www.eisil.org/index.php?sid=832036562&t=sub_pa ges&cat=19

• EISIL: Private International Law:

www.eisil.org/index.php?sid=832036562&t=sub_pa ges&cat=25

INVESTOR-STATE ARBITRATION DECISIONS

• Investment Claims:

http://oxia.ouplaw.com/home/IC

• Italaw (Investment Treaty Arbitration):

www.italaw.com/

• Investment Arbitration Reporter:

http://www.iareporter.com/

ORGANIZATIONS

• World Trade Organization: www.wto.org
• UNCITRAL: www.uncitral.org/uncitral/
• UNIDROIT: www.unidroit.org
• International Chamber of Commerce (ICC):

www.iccwbo.org/

• International Bar Association: www.ibanet.org
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO):

www.wipo.int/

• NAFTA: www.nafta-sec-alena.org/Home/

KEEPING UP TO DATE

• International Economic Law and Policy Blog:

http://worldtradelaw.typepad.com/ielpblog/

• BNA International Trade Reporter

LAW LIBRARY RESEARCH GUIDES

• Foreign Law Legal Research & Resources:

http://lawlibrary.arizona.edu/research/foreign- law-legal-research-resources

• International Law Resources:

http://lawlibrary.arizona.edu/research/internatio nal-law-resources

• International Trade Law & Development:

http://lawlibrary.arizona.edu/research/internatio nal-trade-law-and-development

QUESTIONS?