WHITE PLAINS, New York, March 6, 2007 – The Institute of International Commercial Law of Pace University School of Law, together with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the Wuhan Institute of International Law, and the China Society of Private International Law will be hosting a comprehensive seminar concerning the international sale of goods.  The seminar on Case Law and the Rule of Law in China will take place on Saturday and Sunday, October 13 and 14, 2007 at Wuhan University in the People’s Republic of China .  The principle goal of this conference is to improve the familiarity of the international legal community with the rules of law set forth by the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and with the vast amount of experience China has acquired in its implementations of the world’s uniform international sales law. 

Prominent members of the bar, the bench and ministries of the People’s Republic of China and of the international commercial law community will attend this seminar in order to review the uniform international sales law of China , the United States and 68 of their trading partners.  The main speakers at this event include the leaders in the field of international commercial law of China , UNCITRAL, and the CISG Advisory Council.  Some of the speakers at the conference include world-renowned Eric E. Bergsten, a former Chief of UNCITRAL, Michael Joachim Bonell, a major contributor to the CISG, and Jan Ramberg, a global authority on international sales contracts.  This conference springs from Pace’s publication of translated texts of over 200 Chinese arbitral decisions.

The adoption of the CISG prompted the Institute of International Commercial Law of Pace University School of Law to create an award-winning web-based electronic library focusing on international case law and commercial law.  Of the 70 countries that have adopted the CISG, which account for three-fourths of all world trade, China is becoming a world leader in embracing the rule-of-law principles of this uniform international law comprehensively and energetically.  Seminar attendees will gain valuable knowledge of international commercial law that will be of considerable help in doing business in China and worldwide.

For additional information about the Wuhan seminar, or to schedule an interview with Professor Albert Kritzer, please call him at (914) 422-4159 or email him at akritzer@law.pace.edu. For more information about Pace’s LLM in Comparative Legal Studies, please send an e-mail to llm@law.pace.edu.  

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