Strategies and Sources for International Legal Research

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This paper was presented at the Global Issues in Law and Finance Conference, June 30, 2005 in London, England. The Conference was jointly sponsored by the Credit Law Institute and the Conference on Consumer Finance Law. The content of the paper is based on the course Advanced Legal Research: Foreign, Comparative and International Law (hereinafter FCIL) that I teach along with Professor Judith Morgan at the Oklahoma City University School of Law. The paper focuses on research strategies and reference sources for foreign and international law. Specifically it discusses finding treaties, foreign law research and international trade in goods research.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 12

Keywords: international legal research, foreign legal research, international trade research, international law, foreign law, comparative law, international trade, CISG

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