It should also be noted that there is a significant overlap between relevant sites in international conflict of laws and those on international trade. It may be fruitful to refer to the International Sales Collection . At this site, materials may be found on various treaties and conventions touching on Conflict of Laws, including the Lugano Convention on Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments, the Rome Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations between EC states, and the Vienna Convention on International Sales of Goods. Various arbitration rules and conventions are also available at this site. The materials are arranged both by subject as well as chronologically.
Tables of content are available in Spanish, French, German and Italian as well as English.
Amongst these are the 1961 Convention on the Conflicts of Laws relating to the Form of Testamentary Dispositions, the 1965 Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters, and the 1985 Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and on their Recognition. The catalogue of translations, status reports and ratification lists of the various conventions is particularly useful. Perhaps the most significant difference is that interpretation of the Brussels Convention 1968 is ultimately determined by the European Court of Justice. The Rome Convention governs the choice of law rules in contract among its signatory states, which are members of the European Union. The EU site also contains legal texts of official documents, and information about the institutions of the Union, as well as recent issues of the EU Journal.