[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 88 (Thursday, May 6, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25450-25451]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-10345]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 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 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 
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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, NW., in 
Georgetown. Meetings will begin at 9:30 a.m. Thursday and Friday and 
close at 5 p.m. on Thursday and 4 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 e-mail addresses, and affiliation(s) if any, to the 
Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law by 
e-mail to [email protected] 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.
    Documents on these topics are obtainable at http://www.Uncitral.org; http://www.hccl.net; http://www.Unidroit.org; and 
http://www.oas.org. For further information on the topics, please 
contact Jeff Kovar at [email protected], Mary Helen Carlson at 
[email protected], or Hal Burman at [email protected]. For 
information on the ILI call Kiril Glavev or Don Wallace, Jr. at 202-
247-6006, or email ILI at [email protected] or [email protected]. For 
information on the Advisory Committee contact Hal Burman as noted above 
or by fax at 202-776-8482.

    Dated: April 28, 2004.
Harold S. Burman,
Advisory Committee Executive Director, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 04-10345 Filed 5-5-04; 8:45 am]
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