[Hague-jur-commercial-law] Reminde:r Tomorrow May 20, Advisory Committee on The Hague

[Manon Ress]

Reminder: tomorrow May 20 10am The ADVISORY COMMITTEE  ON PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW DEPARTMENT OF STATE
will discuss The Hague and other international development.  Agenda below.
See you there
Manon

MAY 20-21, 2004
WASHINGTON, DC

International law Institute
1055 Thomas Jefferson Place
Georgetown

AGENDA

THURSDAY  AM

10:00 AM: Welcoming comments ILI Director Don Wallace
Opening remarks
Administrative announcements

• International developments:

Reports on developments in international organizations, bar associations,
NGOs and others

• Globalization and  current EU-US issues on the private law front

The balance between multilateralism and the role of regional bodies

• Hague Conference Draft Convention on choice of forum

Key issues; EU and other country group positions; relevance of the prior
draft convention
on jurisdiction and enforcement of judgments; intellectual property law
issues

• International dispute resolution

Amendments to the Uncitral Model Law on Arbitration on interim measures of
protection; the ALI transnational civil procedure project


Lunch Break at the Conference facilities:  12:30 – 1:15


THURSDAY  PM

1:30 PM – 4:30 PM

•  International maritime and transportation law:

	Closing in on the latest effort in a 80 year (or more) quest for a
unified carriage of goods by sea law; major issues in the draft
CMI-UNCITRAL convention; balance of U.S. interests; international
jurisdiction issues; e-documents and negotiability

•  Outer space treaties and private finance law: Unidroit negotiations on
rules for private law financing in outer space; relationship to the
existing UN Outer Space treaty system and the International
Telecommunications Union; public international law treaty issues; the 2001
Cape Town Convention on mobile equipment finance, status in Congress and
the ICAO Preparatory Commission


FRIDAY AM

9:30 A.M. – 12:00

•  Comments by the State Department

• Family law and emerging international process:

Bilateral and multilateral  proposals on child support;  protection of
children and incapacitated adults; implementation of the Hague Conventions
on child adoption and abduction; transfrontier access

Federal-state issues affecting cross-border family interests

•  The Organization of American States and projections for the PIL field:

Multilateralism and the role of regional bodies such as the OAS and
Mercosur; the OAS-sponsored Seventh Specialized Conference on Private
International Law (CIDIP); U.S. proposals; IADB, the CAFTA states and
subregional finance reform


Lunch Break at the Conference facilities:  12:15 – 1:00




FRIDAY PM

1:00  PM to 3:30 PM

• Treaty law and electronic commerce:

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties – consistent with the new
Uncitral draft convention on e-contract formation?  Proposed overlay to
existing multilateral and bilateral treaties; current developments and
road blocks; free market law vs. regulation of commerce; relevance of WSIS
and the UN Global Forum on Internet Governance

• International commercial fraud:

Its growth and effects on stability of developing countries and useage of
standard commercial documents; recent UN efforts involving Uncitral and
the UN Crime Commission; is there a path forward in the private law?

• Status reports:  international insolvency law reform; expected
completion at Uncitral Plenary session 2004; legislative guide on project
finance; future work on e-procurement, and other projects as time permits

• Closing remarks and prospects for 2004-2005


Possible advance topics for the next ACPIL meeting:

•  Final action on: the Hague convention on choice of forum;  the CMI -
Uncitral convention on carriage of goods; and implementation of the Cape
Town Convention on mobile equipment.  Do these conventions / projects
together change the PIL world map?

•  International insolvency law reform: relation of the new UN legislative
guidelines to World Bank and IMF international standards; private law
concepts of reorganization – can they be applied to sovereign debt;
Congressional status of the 1997 Uncitral Model Law on cross-border
bankruptcy cases

•  International securities transactions and the computer age:  the Hague
convention on conflicts rules for securities intermediaries; start-up of
the Unidroit project on harmonization of substantive rules for
cross-border securities transactions; possible private law rules for
global shares

•  Developments in EU-US and NAFTA relationships as they affect
international private law; changes in UN geographic representation and
process

			Recommendations for additional topics are welcome.




DOCUMENTS on these subjects are obtainable at www.Uncitral.org;
www.hcch.net; www.Unidroit.org; and www.oas.org.   Additional documents
will be provided by email wherever possible.  Comments on any topic will
be welcome from those that cannot attend.

	For further information on the topics referred to, please contact Jeff
Kovar at KovarJD@State.gov <mailto:KovarJD@State.gov> or at 202-776-8342, Mary Helen Carlson at
CarlsonMH@State.gov <mailto:CarlsonMH@State.gov> or at 202-776-8425, or Hal Burman at
Halburman@aol.com <mailto:Halburman@aol.com> or at 202-776-8421.  For information on the ILI call
Kiril Glavev or Don Wallace, Jr. at 202-247-6006, or email ILI at
Wallace@ili.org. <mailto:Wallace@ili.org.>

	For future notices, please remember to provide us with current email and
fax numbers when you reply.   If you do not plan to attend the meeting,
it would still be very helpful if you could provide these contact
numbers, so we can keep you up to date on PIL developments.

-- 
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