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Materials

I. National Legislation

1. ( Eastern / Western) Germany

Zivilprozessordnung - German Code of Civil Procedure

Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch - German Civil Code

Handelsgesetzbuch - German Commercial Code

2. Netherlands

Dutch Code of Civil Procedure

Nieuw Burgerlijk Wetboek - New Netherlands Civil Code ( Dutch Civil Code )

3. Switzerland

Schweizer Obligationenrecht - Swiss Law of Obligations

IPRG - Swiss International Private Law (Swiss PIL)

4. Other European Countries

Belgian Civil Code

French Code Civil 1804

French Code Civil 2016

Italian Codice Civile

Czechoslovak International Trade Code

Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch - Austrian Civil Code

English Arbitration Act 1996

Danish Contracts Act

Austrian Arbiration Law 2006

Scottish Arbitration Bill 2009

Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010

Spanish Código Civil

Finnish Contracts Act

5. (North / South) America

Sec. 4, US Uniform Mediation Act, available under http://www.pon.harvard.edu/guests/uma/

Civil Code Québec 1991

US Uniform Arbitration Act 2000

Uniform Commercial Code (USA)

Louisiana Civil Code 2015

6. Arabia, Asia and Africa

Egyptian Civil Code

South-African "Conventional Penalties Act" of 1962 (Wet No. 15 of 1962)

Contract Law of the People's Republic of China

UAE Law of Commercial Procedure 1994

OHADA Uniform Act Relating to General Commercial Law (Translation)

OHADA Uniform act on arbitration

Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA), Uniform act relating to general commercial law

Philippines Republic Act 386 (Civil Code)

The Draft Civil Code for Israel in: Siehr, Kurt/Zimmermann, Reinhard (ed.) The Draft Civil Code for Israel in comparative perspective, 2008

Fontaine, Marcel, OHADA Uniform Act On Contract Law Preliminary Draft

Indonesian Civil Code (excerpts)

The Indian Contract Act, 1872 (Act no. 9 of 1872)

South African Prescribed Rate of Interest Act 55 of 1975

Civil Code of the People's Republic of China (2020)

Japanese Civil Code 2020

7. Russia

Russian Civil Code

II. Conventions

League of Nations, Geneva Protocol 1923

League of Nations - Geneva Convention 1927

United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)

UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring (Ottawa, 28 May 1988).

UNIDROIT Convention on International Financial Leasing (Ottawa, 20 May 1988).

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of 1969

Convention on Agency in the International Sale of Goods (Geneva, 17 February 1983).

Rome Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Relations of October 9, 1980, OJ EU, No. L 266

The Unified Agreement for the Investment of Arab Capital in the Arab Countries

OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions. (Fulltext available at: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/4/18/38028044.pdf)

United Nations Convention against Corruption

United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, 1958 (New York Convention)

Uniform Law on the Formation of Contracts for the International Sale of Goods

Uniform Law on the International Sale of Goods

Convention of Claims between Great Britain and Spain - Signed at Madrid, 12th March, 1823

III. Model Laws

UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, 1985

IV. Restatements

Principles of European Contract Law - PECL

Principles of the Existing EC Contract Law (Acquis Principles)

The Most Recent Legal Principles Adopted by the Arbitral Tribunals under the Auspices of the Cairo Centre, CRCICA-Newsletter, Jan. 1997, page 2 et seq.

Code Européen des Contrats - European Contract Code

A Contract Code: Drawn up on Behalf of the English Law Commission

American Restatement 2nd of the Law of Contracts

UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts 2016

OHADAC principles on international commercial contracts

Principles of Latin American Contract Law (PLACL)

V. Arbitration Rules

DIS Arbitration Rules 1998, downloadable at http://www.dis-arb.de

Annex to the DIS Arbitration Rules 1998 - Supplementary Rules for Expedited Proceedings 2008

ICC Arbitration Rules 1998

Art. 7 ICC ADR Rules

London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) Rules

WIPO Arbitration Rules

UNCITRAL Conciliation Rules 1980, YCA 1981, 165 et seq.

CEDR Code of Conduct for Third Party Neutrals, CEDR Model Mediation Procedure, CEDR Model Mediation Agreement

ICDR International Dispute Resolution Procedures (including Mediation and Arbitration Rules)

UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules 1976

UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules 2010 (revised)

Swiss Rules of International Arbitration 2006

Camera Arbitrale di Milano - Arbitration Rules 2010

VI. Arbitration Best Practices

IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration, 2004

IBA Rules of Ethics for International Arbitrators 1987

IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration 2010

VII. Mediation Rules

DIS Mediation/Conciliation Rules, 2002

ICDR International Dispute Resolution Procedures (including Mediation and Arbitration Rules)

Camera Arbitrale di Milano, International Business Mediation Rules, October 2008

VIII. Research Papers

Lamaud, Emmanuel, Comparison Between the CENTRAL List and the Vienna Convention for the International Sale of Goods - Specific Topics (research paper 2006)

Yildirim, Ahmet Cemil, Equilibrio Contrattuale Nei Principi UNIDROIT e Nel Diritto Turco (research paper 2009)

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