[Hague-jur-commercial-law] 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’S 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’s 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 – Harold S. Burman
X68421 or L/PIL office x68420
Concurrence: RM: PJordan

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Manon Anne Ress
Consumer Project on Technology
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manon.ress@cptech.org, voice: 1.202.387.8030, fax: 1.202.234.5176