Title: Transnational Law Database

Source/Sponsoring Agency: Universitaet Muenster. Center for Transnational Law

URL: http://www.tldb.de/

Date Checked: 11/15/01      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 11/19/01

Topics: International Law; International Trade

Other keywords: Lex Mercatoria

Contents: The Transnational Law Database is a project of the Center for Transnational Law at the Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet in Muenster, Germany. Designed for legal practitioners, it focuses on the new Lex Mercatoria: a gradual codification of transnational commercial law, in particular contract law and commercial arbitration. The centerpiece of the database is the "List of Lex Mercatoria Principles," which is accessed through a hierarchically-structured table of contents. The user is able to start from an individual principle or rule and link directly to the related references taken from international arbitration awards, conventions, trade practice, statutes, and academic sources, most of which are in full text. A lengthy bibliography of books and articles appears in a separate window. The bibliography is not searchable, but the rest of the website is, using keyword, Boolean, and wildcard searching.

Author of Annotation: A. Carson