Private international law resources

Private international law resources in the United States

Research guides

ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law: Private International Law. A guide to Web sources mostly limited to multilateral treaty regimes.

Jonathan Pratter & Joseph R. Profaizer, A practitioner’s research guide and bibliography to international civil litigation, 28 Tex. Int’l L. J. 633 (1993). A research guide to an important aspect of private international law that, like all good research guides, equips the researcher to continue research independently.

Gateways

Private International Law Database (U.S. State Department). “The purpose of this web site is to provide a convenient location to find treaties in force for the United States, other international instruments, and information on current negotiations and projects covering the private international law of such areas as trade and commerce, finance and banking, trusts and estates, family and children matters, and international judicial assistance . . . The database is organized into four general areas: Trade and Business Transactions Law; Family Law; International Judicial Assistance; and the law governing Wills, Trusts, and Estates.”

Primary sources

Hague Conference on Private International Law. A good source for the texts of private international law conventions.

International Commercial Arbitration. Along with multilateral arbitration treaties, it contains translations of foreign arbitration rules.

Secondary sources

Richard H. Kreindler, Transnational litigation: A basic primer (1998)

Bruno A. Ristau, International judicial assistance: Civil and commercial (1984 -) [LAW/FOREIGN-INTL REF K7624 .R57 1984]. Contains analysis, useful summaries of practice in this area, and selected primary texts.

Georges R. Delaume, Transnational contracts — applicable law and settlement of disputes: a study in conflict avoidance (1975 – ).

World Litigation Law & Practice (Ronald A. Myrick, ed., 1986 – ). Foreign coverage is limited to Canada, England and Wales, Italy, Belgium, and “West Germany.”


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