Tuesday 10 September 2013
Oxford Law Faculty
Cape Town Convention Academic Project - 2nd Conference
Venue: Oxford The Cube
The Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (the CTC) is one of the world’s most important commercial law treaties, which has secured over 50 ratifications in relatively short period of time. The Convention and its protocols provides for an international interest, registered in a central international registry, in aircraft, railway rolling stock and space assets. The CTC is not only worthy of study in its own right, but raises many issues of more general interest, such as the use of private law conventions in transnational law, and the process by which such conventions are developed and agreed.
This conference is the second annual conference of the Cape Town Convention Academic Project, which is described briefly below. The first conference included papers given by leading experts on particular aspects of the CTC, such as its effect on the law and practice on electronic commerce, its effect on the Blue Sky case and on judicial relief and insolvency, as well as discussion of the use of the CTC in the teaching of international and transnational law, of economic assessment of CTC and of international commercial law generally. The papers from the first conference are available on http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/conferences/ctc/papers.php
The second conference will build on the success of the first, and will follow a similar format. Papers this time will include discussion of the treatment of non-consensual interests and of intangibles in the CTC, and of the particular provisions in the CTC regarding public service, and jurisdiction and choice of law. There will also be papers on CTC and comparative law and on the relationship between the CTC and national law, including the implementation of the former into the latter. Each session will include ample opportunity for questions and debate. The conference will be of interest both to academics and to practising lawyers
The conference will take place in the Faculty of Law, Oxford University on 10th and 11th September. There will be a conference dinner at Harris Manchester College, Oxford on 10th September.
The Cape Town Convention Academic Project is a joint undertaking between the University of Oxford Faculty of Law and the University of Washington School of Law. Aspects of the Project are also being undertaken under the auspices of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). The Project’s purpose is to facilitate the study and assessment of the CTC and to advance its aims. The Project will benefit scholars, practising lawyers, and judges and other government officials. The Project’s founding sponsor is the Aviation Working Group. It is comprised of several segments, including the creation of a comprehensive electronic data base, a specialised journal, the creation of teaching materials, and economic assessment.
For further details please contact louise.gullifer@hmc.ox.ac.ukor jean-luc.jucker@anthro.ox.ac.uk.
For more information please see the event website or contact: Jean-Luc Jucker
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Organised by Oxford Law Faculty in conjunction with University of Washington School of Law
