CISG Database

Established over thirty-years ago at Pace Law, the CISG Database provides a comprehensive global collection of legal materials on the CISG. 

• Copyright Notice
• ​CISG Database users: Invitation
• About Your CISG Database Account
• Recent Updates to CISG Database 
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• Pace CISG Survey 
• Watch this introduction to the CISG database by Albert H. Kritzer and Read introductory remarks

• Text of CISG (in multiple languages)
• Contracting States
• 1980 Diplomatic Conference Texts (Legislative History)
• Antecedents to the CISG

• Case Law Search (login required for access)

• Volunteer to Translate CISG Cases

• All cases have been updated and migrated to the new database as of January 21, 2021. The CISG case law database is being updated regularly.

• China: Docket numbers, e.g., [CISG/1988/01], are Pace database docket nos., not CIETAC numbers.

• UNCITRAL Case Law Digest
• Yearbook of CISG Cases
• CISG Translation Network
• Add a Case or Award to the CISG Database

• Introductions to the CISG
• Bibliography Search (login required for access) (Date search not currently available)
• Add Your Scholarly Work
• Collection of Scholarly Writing (archived Database)
• CISG Advisory Council Opinions

Annotated text pages, including:

• Case Law
• Legislative History
• Scholarly Writings
• UNIDROIT and PECL guiding principles

• IICL- JAMS Global Training Series
• Archived Lectures
• Autonomous Network of CISG Databases
• Links to Other Related International Web Sites
• Homepage on the Limitation Convention

• Visualizing CISG

• UNCITRAL, HCCH and Unidroit "Legal Guide to Uniform Instruments" (2021)

• Case Study (UCC and the CISG)

• Cross-border Contracting: How to draft and negotiate international commercial contracts (ITC Handbook) (2018)

• Guide for Managers and Counsel: Applying the CISG
• Guide for Managers and Counsel: Drafting CISG Contracts
• A Practical Guide to the CISG: Negotiations through Litigation
• International Contract Manual