New legal titles from Oxford & De Gruyter.

Oxford University Press (New York) has launched "International Law in Domestic Courts," a new online subscription service that carries the "most important" developments in domestic courts across the world. Subscription prices are based on the size and type of institution. Personal subscriptions are also available.

Targeted to both legal scholars and lawyers in practice, the service includes content from legal practitioners covering cases in over 60 countries and is designed to allow users to pinpoint specific legal issues and to compare how those issues have been dealt with in different jurisdictions. The service tracks changes in the law as they occur and is updated on a bimonthly basis.

Each case covered includes commentary on the most relevant points of the case and includes information on the overall context of how national courts interpret international law in reaching their decisions. The service includes coverage of both those cases that are relevant for the identification and interpretation of principles and rules of general international law (principles of jurisdiction, immunities, state succession, responsibility, general principles) as well as cases relevant for the identification and interpretation of principles and rules of international law in certain functional fields, such as human rights law, international criminal law, finance and banking.

Walter de Gruyter (Berlin/New York) has begun the publication of "European Review of Contract Law," a new journal that covers the recent evolution and ongoing developments in European contract law, a body of law driven by the European Commission's Communication on European Contract Law and directed by the Commission's Action Plan. It will be published quarterly and an annual subscription costs $287.

The journal covers such diverse areas as sales, standard contract terms, distribution chains, marketing practices, research and development agreements, contract law copyright aspects, financial and investment services contracts, insurance contracts and e-commerce, non-discrimination within and outside labor law, labor law contracts and other "symbiotic" contracts.

Editorial discusses contract law in three sections: articles, the case law and literature on EC contract law, including book reviews and news summaries on recent EC legislation, national developments, existing law at the EC level, and rules influencing the formation, content and execution of contracts. The company said the title's coverage is "as interdisciplinary as possible" with examination of the economic impact of proposed and existing law, and comparative law.