[Ecommerce] May 20-21: Advisory on the Hague, UNCITRAL, UNIDROIT and OAS

[Manon Ress]

Sorry for crossposting this but the Advisory Committee will be covering
several international bodies focusing on private international law. See
you there.
Manon

BILLING CODE: 4710-8

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 4702

SECRETARY OF STATE=92S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW:

GENERAL MEETING ON INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS

SUMMARY: A general open meeting of the Advisory Committee will be held
in Washington, DC on May 20-21, 2004 at the International Law Institute
(ILI) in Georgetown.
MEETING NOTICE:
The Department of State=92s Advisory Committee on Private International
Law (ACPIL) will hold a general meeting on Thursday and Friday, May 20
and 21, 2004 in Washington, DC at the International Law Institute. The
meeting will survey developments in the field and offer an opportunity
for members of the public to comment both on those developments and to
make recommendations for work that might be undertaken in various
international fora.
The agenda tentatively will cover current developments in international
bodies that focus on private international law, such as the United
Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the Hague
Conference on Private International Law, the International Institute for
Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), the Organization of American
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States, and others. Regional developments relevant to private law will
also be reviewed, which will cover the European Union, NAFTA, Mercosur,
and others, depending on time available.
Particular topics will be discussed, including: the status of
negotiations of a multilateral treaty (convention) on choice of forum
and its relation to prior efforts to negotiate a convention on
recognition and enforcement of judgements, and other international
developments on alternate dispute resolution; current negotiations on a
convention to unify the law of carriage of goods by sea and inland
carriage, with an emphasis on liability and jurisdiction issues; current
negotiations on extending secured finance law to outer space commercial
activities; international family law developments, including bilateral
and multilateral approaches to maintenance and support obligations, and
cross-border adoption and abduction; and the impact of cross-border
commercial fraud, its effect on developing countries, and its place
within the UN system.
The status of several other ongoing activities in this field will also
be presented, including a recent Hague Convention and other international


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projects on new harmonized laws for investment securities; the
anticipated completion of new standards for business insolvency law
reform at UNCITRAL, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund;
a draft Convention on electronic commerce focusing on cross-border
contract formation, and related treaty law issues, and implementation of
the Cape Town Convention on international financing interests in mobile
equipment, including aircraft .

TIME AND PLACE: meetings will be held at the new facilities of the
International Law Institute (ILI) at 1055 Jefferson Place, N.W. in
Georgetown. Meetings will begin at 9:30 a.m. Thursday and Friday and
close at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday and 4:00 p.m. on Friday. The meeting is
open to the public, to the extent seating capacity is available; persons
planning to attend should provide their names in advance, with contact
numbers, including email addresses, and affiliation(s) if any, to the
Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law by
email to ReidCD@state.gov or by fax to 202-776-8482. Persons who cannot
attend but who wish to comment on any of the topics referred to above
are welcome to do so.



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DOCUMENTS on these topics are obtainable at www.Uncitral.org;
www.hccl.net; www.Unidroit.org; and www.oas.org. For further information
on the topics, please contact Jeff Kovar at KovarJD@State.gov, Mary
Helen Carlson at CarlsonMH@State.gov, or Hal Burman at
Halburman@aol.com. For information on the ILI call Kiril Glavev or Don
Wallace, Jr. at 202-247-6006, or email ILI at Wallace@ili.org or
K-Glavev@ili.org. For information on the Advisory Committee contact Hal
Burman as noted above or by fax at 202-776-8482.

_______________________ ____________________________
Date Harold S. Burman
Advisory Committee Executive Director
Department of State









Drafted: L/PIL =96 Harold S. Burman
X68421 or L/PIL office x68420
Concurrence: RM: PJordan

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Manon Anne Ress
Consumer Project on Technology
www.cptech.org
PO Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
manon.ress@cptech.org, voice: 1.202.387.8030, fax: 1.202.234.5176