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Papers presented at the UNCITRAL Congress "Modern Law for Global Commerce", 9-12 July 2007, Vienna

 

Nicolas Michel Opening address

Process and methods of international rule-making

Didier Opertti Badán Key-note address
Jeffrey Chan Wah-Teck Allocation of work among formulating agencies
Kathryn Sabo Coordination of domestic positions in international forums

Harmonization of commercial law: practical importance and economic value

Gerhard Wagner Transaction costs, choice of law and uniform contract law
Jan Smits Economic arguments in the harmonization debate
Helmut Wagner Costs of legal uncertainty

Commercial law development and technical legal assistance: goals and stakeholders

Gerard Sanders Commercial law harmonization and multilateral assistance to law reform
Charles A. Schwartz Commercial law harmonization and bilateral assistance to law reform
Jean-François Bourque Addressing complexity: ITC's experience in trade law related technical assistance
Rosa María Maggi Ducommun Training needs for judges and arbitrators
Chiara Giovannucci Orlandi Legal harmonization in practice: teaching and learning uniform commercial law

Economic and social development through enhanced access to credit

Muhammad Medhat Hassanein Legal mechanisms to empower informal businesses
Vijay S. Tata The role of multilateral financing agencies in promoting modern standards for secured transactions
Madhukar Rangnath Umarji The role of secured transactions to mobilize credit and the need for modernizing the law
Richard Kohn Promoting the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables In International Trade and the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions
Georges Affaki Promoting the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables In International Trade and the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions

New horizons for secured transactions

Neil Cohen Practical problems of integrating various international standards of secured transactions
Oscar Alcantara Security interest in intellectual property rights
Ulrich Drobnig Open issues in the field of secured transactions

Legal issues on corporate governance

Seward Cooper Corporate governance in developing countries: shortcomings, challenges and impact on access to credit
Kathryn Gordon Responsible investing in weak governance zones
Peter Doralt Company restructuring and accountability

Roundtable: Developing effective and efficient insolvency regimes

Sumant Batra Developing effective and efficient insolvency regimes
Eva Hüpkes Developing effective and efficient insolvency regimes
Neil Cooper Developing effective and efficient insolvency regimes
Irit Mevorach Developing effective and efficient insolvency regimes

The future of contract law harmonization

Diana Wallis The European contract law project
Jean-Paul Béraudo Le droit des contrats aux niveaux national, régional et mondial
Serguei N. Lebedev Global and regional harmonization: the Russian perspective
Yuejiao Zhang Global and regional harmonization: the Chinese perspective

Uniform contract law in practice

Henry D. Gabriel Choice of law, contract terms and uniform law in practice
Michael Joachim Bonell Towards a legislative codification of the UNIDROIT principles?
Hiroo Sono Contract law harmonization and third countries: the case of the CISG
Eckart Brödermann The practice of excluding the CISG: time for change?
Harry Flechtner The practice of excluding the CISG: time for change?

Carriage of goods in the 21st century

Jan Ramberg Freight forwarder law
Michael Sturley Sea carriage goes ashore: relationship between multimodal conventions and domestic unimodal rules
Alexander von Ziegler Transfer of rights and transport documents

Electronic commerce: going beyond functional equivalence

Mal Nuhu Ribadu Cybercrime and commercial fraud
Bart Schermer Developing single windows for foreign trade
Amelia H. Boss Becoming operational: electronic registries and transfer of rights

New procurement techniques and current issues on government procurement

Steven Schooner Modern public procurement techniques: benefits, concerns and regulation (with emphasis on theoretical issues)
Knut Leipold Modern public procurement techniques: benefits, concerns and regulation (with emphasis on practical issues)
Robert Hunja Achieving socioeconomic goals through public procurement: what is at stake?

Long-term government contracts and private investment

Alexei Zverev Key issues on creating legal framework for infrastructure concessions
Hector Mairal The impact of public procurement and rules of government contracting on public spending and attracting private infrastructure investment
Don Wallace Public procurement, long-term government contracts and dispute settlement

Steps to ensure a stable framework for the settlement of commercial disputes

Cecil Abraham How to promote a uniform interpretation of public policy
Anthony Colman The question of appellate jurisdiction in international arbitration
Jan Paulsson Is there a need for additional support for ad hoc arbitration?

Commercial dispute settlement: issues for the future

Zack Clement, III The possible role of arbitration in insolvency
José María Abascal Zamora Reducing time and costs on international arbitration
Tore Wiwen-Nilsson Conciliation: Enforcement of settlement agreement
Yas Banifatemi Unresolved issues in investment arbitration