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VIS East Mooting Competition
Kate Freedman, Clare O’HanlonSenior Learning Advisor (Library) Law.2016
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The VIS International Arbitration Moot
The Problem:
https://vismoot.pace.edu/site/24th-vis-moot/the-problem
Research Help:
VIS Moot subject guide (This is your best starting place)
Research in International Commercial Arbitration: Special Skills, Special Sources article by SI Strong.
Electronic Resource Guide to International Commercial Arbitration
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Finding Monographs (Ebooks)
Library Search
CCH Ebooks- Texts from Kluwer Law International and Lexis Nexis Australia
Oxford Public International Law (Max Plank Encyclopaedia)
Coming Soon-
Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law (Brill)
(now available)
Brill International Law E-Books
(purchase notes will not show, and will be able to be found via Library Search)
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Finding Primary Source Materials
CISG (United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods of 1980)
Pace's CISG database brings you text and annotations organized by CISG article.
UNCITRAL CISG database links to the purpose, text, and explanatory notes of CISG by article number.
New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards
Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: A Global Commentary on the New York Convention, Kronke, Nacimiento, et al. (ed)(Book from Kluwer Database)
Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID)
UNILEX on CISG & UNIDROIT Principles: International Case Law and Bibliography
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Cases and Arbitral Awards
Databases: Kluwer, Westlaw etc…
Permanent Court of Arbitration – Cases (browse or search)
Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - cases and arbitral awards:
2012 Digest of Case Law on the UN Convention on CISG 2012 Digest of Case Law on the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration These digests explain each article of the based on case interpretation (and gives case citations).
CLOUT database. Search by article number, date, parties, case number, and/or CLOUT number.
Pace database. Search by article number or by word descriptor.
UNIDROIT Principles - cases and arbitral awards:
o Unilex database. Search under "cases" by "articles & issues" OR search under "subjects“
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About Kluwer Arbitration
World Leading Online Resource for International Arbitration Research
Categories include:
Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs)
Conventions
Countries
Legislation
NY Convention Decisions
Organizations and Rules
Primary Materials:
BITs – almost 1700 treaties
Case Law – over 5,000 court decisions and 1,750 awards
Conventions - 25 multilateral treaties
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About Kluwer Arbitration
Legislation - almost 500 laws for key jurisdictions
Model clauses: close to 100 model clauses from major arbitral institutions
Rules – over 400 rules from major arbitral institutions
Analytical Content:
88 books & 5 journals e.g. Arbitration International and Journal of InternationalArbitration
Blog Posts
ITA Reports
Practice Tools
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Searching Kluwer Arbitration
General Search Principles:
Asterisk (*) for arbitra* will find arbitration, arbitrations, arbitrability
Boolean Operators: AND / OR / AND NOT / NEAR
Phrase Search (“commercial arbitration”)
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Searching Kluwer Arbitration
Practice Questions:
Convention Establishing the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA Convention, 1985)
Dafina Atanasova, ‘The Legal Framework for Counterclaims in Investment Treaty Arbitration’ (2014) 31 Journal of International Arbitration 357.
Indlekofer, Manuel, ‘International Arbitration and the Permanent Court of Arbitration’ (2013) Kluwer Law International
Ascendi Beiras Litoral e Alta, Auto Estradas das Beiras Litoral e Alta SA v. Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira, Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), C-377/13 Case Date 12 June 2014
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Secondary Sources: Journal Articles and Databases Coverage
AGIS
APAIS
Westlaw US, Lexis.com:
US & Canada Westlaw UK,
Lexis.com: UK
Index to Legal Periodicals (Ebsco)
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (Hein)
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Secondary Sources- Journal Articles via Databases
Index to Legal Periodicals (Ebsco)
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (Hein online)
Use general search principles:
Quotation marks: “united nations” for phrase searching
Asterisk: fixed pric* for truncation- finds fixed price, fixed pricing, etc.
The Near operator (N#): finds words near each other regardless of word order.
o E.g.. legal N5 principles will find legal principles as well as principles of legal reform.
The Within Operator: (W#) - finds words in the order in which you entered them.
o In the above example using W4 would find legal principles but not principles of legal reform.
Subject headings of articles help you gather related articles on a particular topic or concept
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Additional Secondary Sources
Databases
Westlaw
Lexis.com
Proquest Central
Business Databases
Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
EconLit Full Text (EBSCO)
ABI/INFORM Complete (Proquest)
Newspapers
Factiva
The Age
Australian Financial Review
Sydney Morning Herald
NOTE: We may not hold all the articles in these indexes in Full Text.
Clicking on the Full Text Finder link next to the article may bring it up or check if we hold the article by looking for the Journal in the Library Search Journals Tab.
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Databases Tab- Westlaw
Once in Westlaw, go to Arbitration Materials and then (on the right) International Arbitration Materials.
To search all US Law Journals, Reviews etc.. Select Secondary Sources
Browse by Area or search.
Journal Articles in Westlaw
Browse by journal or Click all International ArbitrationJournals to search the list.
Once in a title, browse recent articles or search within the journal.
Westlaw
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Secondary Sources- Lexis.com
Lexis.com (Select International Arbitration Tab)
Lexis.com (UK Law Reviews)
Lexis.com (US & Canadian LawReviews)
Lexis.com Search Tips:
To find a journal with a specific title / author:
o title(new players on the international stage)
o author(spiro)
To find articles with terms within a certain distance of each other, and Truncation
o criminal responsibility w/5 state!
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Search Strategy: Extra Hints
Reformulate a query based on documents identified as relevant
Example: Find a key paper and look at how it has been indexed…
Choose to search terms by Subject to pick up articles that may be missed by a key word search.
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
Set your preferences to retrieve La Trobe resources: scholar.google.com
Select Settings > Library Link > add La Trobe University Library > Save
Google Scholar vs. Library Databases
International arbitration AND fixed pricing
The AND is needed in Library Databases.
Google Scholar does NOT index everything.
Use as another tool WITH the library databases.
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Scholarly Articles: Practice: Find 2 of the following
6 Asper Rev. Int'l Bus. & Trade L. 419
James M. Klotz, Peter J. Mazzacano and Antonin I. Pribetic, ‘All Quiet on the CISG Front: Guiliani v. Invar Manufacturing, the Battle of the Forms, and the Elusive Concept of Terminus Fixus’ (2008), 46 C.B.L.J. 430.
Joshua D. H. Karton and Lorraine de Germiny, ‘Has The Cisg Advisory Council Come Of Age?’ (2009) 27 Berkeley Journal of International Law 448.
Ugo Draetta, ‘The 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and arbitration’ (2012) 2 International Business Law Journal 193
Won-Mog Choi, ‘The Present and Future of The Investor-State Dispute Settlement Paradigm’ (2007) 10 Journal of International Economic Law 725
Zachary Elkins, Andrew Guzman and Beth Simmons, ‘Competing for Capital: The Diffusion of Bilateral Investment Treaties, 1960-2000’ (2006) 60 International Organization 811–27
Gus Van Harten and Martin Loughlin, ‘Investment Treaty Arbitration as a Species of Global Administrative Law’ (2006) 17 European Journal of International Law 121
Joshua Meltzer, ‘Investment’ in Simon Lester and Bryan Mercurio, Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements: Commentary and Analysis (2009) Ch 9, 215–273
UNCTAD, 'Latest Developments in Investor―State Dispute Settlement', (2009) IIA Monitor No. 1, UNCTAD/WED/DIAE/IA/2009/6
Marcia J Staff, United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods: Lessons Learned from Five Years of Cases (2009) 6 South Carolina Journal of International Law & Business 1
For more help and information:
Law Libguide
Vis Moot Libguide and Mooting Resources
Contact
Kate Freedman: [email protected]
Clare O’Hanlon: [email protected]
Thank you
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