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Professional Responsibility Links

ABA Center on Professional Responsibility.

ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (current version).

ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct (2007 revision).

South Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct (South Carolina Supreme Court Rule 407).

South Carolina Bar Ethics Advisory Opinion.

South Carolina Revised Lawyers’ Oath (South Carolina Supreme Court Rule 402).

Contracts Links

Arbitration and Conciliation

1958 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York Convention)(In Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).

2006 Recommendation Regarding Interpretation of Article II and Article VII of the New York Convention.

1970 Hague Convention on Taking Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters (In English and French) (In Spanish).

1975 Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration (Panama Convention) (In English, French and Spanish).

2002 UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Conciliation (In Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).

Uniform Arbitration Act.

AAA The American Arbitration Association.

LII Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C.. Sect 1 et seq.).

Japan Commercial Arbitration Association.

Evidence, Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments

1968 European Convention on Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters and subsequent Protocols and accession Conventions (Brussels) (In English and French).

1975 Inter-American Convention on Letters Rogatory (In English) and Additional protocol (In English and Spanish).

1988 European Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters and Protocols 1, 2 and 3 (Lugano) (In English and French).

2007 Amendment of Lugano Convention.

2001 Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters (In English and French).

International Contracts

1978 United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Hamburg Rules)
(In Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).

1980 Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations (Rome) (Original and consolidated convention and 1st and 2nd protocols) (In 11 languages).

1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna) (In English).

1988 United Nations Convention on International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes (New York).

1995 United Nations Convention on Independent Guarantees and Stand-By Letters of Credit (New York) (In Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).

2001 United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade (In Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).

2004 UNIDROIT Principles of international Commercial Contracts.

International Chamber of Commerce.

US Law 

Uniform Commercial Code.

Restatement (Second) of Contracts.

European Law

Official Website of the European Union.

Principles of European Contract Law.

German Civil Code (BGB).

French Civil Code, Book III.

Codice Civile Italiano.

Spanish Civil Code.

Swiss Civil Code.

ABGB Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (Austria).

Asian Law

Contract Law of The People’s Republic of China.