Legal Research

TransLex.org is a project of CENTRAL, the University of Cologne Law School's research center for transnational commercial law ("lex mercatoria").  The center also focuses on private dispute resolution in international business, including mediation and arbitration. Resources available on TransLex include civil and commercial codes (chiefly European); international conventions; principles, restatements and model laws; and various arbitration and mediation rules. Search features provide a choice of keyword searching, browsing, and expert searching. The latter enables the user to limit a search to subsets of the TransLex database, and/or by language, type of document, author, party or judge.  An extensive set of links to further information provide the researcher with additional sources of related documents.The working language of the database is English, so non-English documents are provided in both the original language and in English (exceptions: documents originally written in non-Roman alphabets are provided in English translation only). TransLex promises to be a valuable resource for students, teachers and practitioners of international business law.