This tool includes both a summary and the full text of decisions relating to both the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (the Vienna Convention) and the UNCITRAL Model Law. CLOUT makes available decisions rendered by state courts and arbitral tribunals. UNCITRAL also publishes digests of case law reporting trends on theinterpretation of the Model Law. Naturally, the analysis of this piece of legislation is influenced by the fact that it is a model law (soft law), not a binding convention (hard law). The approach followed by each state in the enactment of the Model Law will, therefore, have a bearing on its inter pretation.