The CISG Database of the Pace Law School Institute of International Commercial Law (IICL) provides a comprehensive global collection of legal materials on the CISG. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is the law governing cross-border sale of goods transactions among the majority of the world’s trading nations.
Ebook Central is a multidisciplinary e-book platform that provides Hasselt University access to more than 150.000 titles, dealing with among others ‘arts & architecture’, ‘business’, ‘law’, ‘health & medicine’ and ‘science & technology’. You can read all e-books online but it is also possible to download them on your local device.
Attention: a complete e-book can only be downloaded temporarily; to do so, you must first install some free software (Adobe Digital Editions) or a free app (Bluefire Reader). However, when you just download pages or chapters, you get 'normal' PDF files that don't expire.
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The Encyclopedia of Law & Economics is a reference work that attempts to survey the whole law and economics literature in nearly 5000 pages. Most entries contain two elements: a review of the literature, written by an authority in the field, and an almost complete bibliography (not just a selection).
HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries. HathiTrust provides full-text searching across all items in the repository (including public domain works and copyrighted works). Depending on the source of the digitized work, licenses or other contractual terms may restrict further distribution or other use.
HeinOnline's International Core package provides access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world. Among the many databases included, HeinOnline’s journal collection features more than 2.800 periodicals relating to a variety of subject areas, with all coverage dating from inception to the most currently published issues in most cases.
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Website of the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ within the United Nations. The court deals with legal disputes between states.
Website of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.
The database of the International humanitarian law contains the Dutch texts of the IHL-treaties that have been ratified by Belgium.
Digital repository of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Online access to hundreds of thousands of ILO books, journal articles, reports, working papers, etc. related to labor issues.
As a student of the Faculty of Law of UHasselt, you are also a student of Maastricht University. Therefore, you have access to their electronic sources, also off-campus. More information on the joint programme can be found here.
You will receive your UM student number + password, to consult the e-sources to which Maastricht University subscribes, by e-mail at the beginning of the (first) academic year. The UM login data will remain valid as long as you are affiliated with Hasselt University. In case of problems with your UM log-in data: contact Servicedesk-ICTS@maastrichtuniversity.nl or
If you want physical access to Maastricht University's library, you can request a UM library card at umcard@maastrichtuniversity.nl, accompanied by your date of birth and a passport photo. Tip: you can always find a passport photo in your UHasselt student file - via My E-id. More information on the UM card can be found at https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/file/3484/download?token=QMtrRyRl (pdf).
